The prayer below was prayed at Mass at St. John Paull II Parish, on Sept. 1, 2015. Sept. 1 is the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. Faithful are welcome to pray this prayer.
PRAYERS TO CARE FOR CREATION
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Committee on the Divine Liturgy
Pledge of Commitment
To Protect and Heal God's Creation
We have come to renew our covenant with God and with one another in Christ Jesus,
our Lord. We have come to help protect God's creation.
We have come as followers of Jesus to commit ourselves anew to one another and to
heal injustice and poverty.
We have come to stand together against all threats to life.
We have come to discover some new beauty every day in God's creation: the sunrise
and sunset, birds, flowers and trees, rainbows in the sky, the stars, the many forms of
life in the forest.
We have come to listen to the "music of the universe"- water flowing over rocks, the
wind, trees bending in the wind, raindrops pattering the roof.
We will remember always that God speaks to us through the beauty of his creation,
and we will try our best to answer God's call to reverence all that he has created.