Liturgical Planners

Care for Creation in the Holy Year of Mercy is a call-and response style prayer service for a leader and congregation, asking for God's protection of the planet in this Year of Mercy. It can be found

Suggested Prayers to Reflect on Creation, offered up by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is a collection of reflective and petition prayers for individual or group practice.

Suggested Scriptures and Hymns to Reflect on Creation, by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is a collection of verses and hymns for use in specific masses, or in individual or small-group study.

A Prayer for Our Earth is from Pope Francis's encyclical, Laudato Si', and is a call for greater care of the Earth and of each other. It can be found here.

An adapted call and response version can be found here. 

Table Grace in a World Struggling with Climate Change is a prayer of thanksgiving offered up from World Vision, urging Christians to look away from our selfish lifestyles and acknowledge the bounty that God has given us. It can be viewed here.

Intercessions on the Care of Creation, by the Sisters of Mercy is a bi-lingual prayer adapted from Pope Francis's encyclical, Laudato Si'.

April 22, 2016 marks the 46th anniversary of Earth Day, a secular celebration that many faith communities have incorporated into their annual calendars. This year, we join with the Earth Day Network to celebrate “Trees for the Earth.”

Catholic Climate Covenant’s 2015 Feast of St. Francis program, “Caring for Our Common Home,” explores how to
understand and apply Pope Francis’s encyclical on ecology and climate change. The encyclical is titled Laudato Si’, or, in English, Praised Be: On The Care of Our Common Home.

This program guide contains everything you need to host an event. This guide refers to a parish, but can be equallywell used by a youth group, university, religious community, or any group that is interested in exploring Laudato Si’.

This program is designed around the 2014 Feast of St. Francis (October 4) and highlights St. Francis’ s concern for Creation and the poor because: