World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation: together with others to struggle against climate change

From today, September 1 to October 4 it is the ‘Season of Creation’, where Christians are called to take action to show care for the planet and are invited to a global prayer for creation.
Responding to and raising awareness about climate change, this initiative actively encourages the renewal of our relationship with God’s creation, for current and future generations. In 2015 Pope Francis established that September 1st would be the World Day of Prayer for Creation Care. Several churches have come together to celebrate this season of Creation, which starts on September 1st and lasts until the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, patron of ecology, on October 4th.
Ten Jesuit organizations from different levels are members of the Global Catholic Climate Movement and therefore will participate in the World Day of Prayer for Creation Care: the Christian Life Communities (at the global level), the GIAN Network Ecojesuit, the Ignatian Solidarity Network, the Gonzalo da Silveira Foundation, Ignatian Volunteer Corps, the International Jesuit Ecology Project from Loyola University of Chicago, the Jesuit European Social Centre (JESC), the Jesuit Asia Pacific Conference, the Jesuit Panamazonian Proyect (as part of Panamazonian ecclesiastic network- REPAM) and the San Luis Gonzaga Education Unit from Ecuador.

“As the world continues to witness the records of warming, Catholics need to answer the call to action of the Holy Father in Laudato Si” said Thomas Insua, Coordinator of the Global Catholic Climate Movement. He added that “the World Day of Prayer for Creation Care is the perfect opportunity for parishes and Catholic communities to deepen their ecological commitment and join other Christians to take action during the season of Creation”.

Therefore, the Church invites Christian communities to organize prayer services at the local level, to be exhibited on a world map to illustrate the magnitude of the collaboration. The Global Catholic Climate Movement has the following goals: to raise awareness within the Church about the urgency of climate action in light of Catholic social and environmental teachings; to support global solidarity on the current ecological crisis and to restore our relationship with all species; to promote ecological conversion through personal and organisational change to reduce our emissions and transition to a low carbon world and to urge political, business and social leaders to commit to ambitious climate action to solve this urgent crisis and keep the global temperature increase below 1.5 degree Celsius (relative to pre-industrial levels).
You can check out the different actions promoted by the Movementon their website and join the World Day of Prayer for Creation Care here and follow #SeasonofCreation on social media. Will you take part in the prayer? Share it with us in the comments section.