On September 1st, 2015, the Church marked the first World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation.
These are resources for our continuing ot pray as individuals and as families.

Following in the footsteps of the Orthodox Church, Catholics are encouraged to organize prayer and practical initiatives to combat the environmental crisis facing our planet.

We can all be creative, first by reading the text of the encylcial letter "On the Care for our Common Home" and then by talking wiht our families and friends about what an "integral ecology" would mean for us. Each of us can reflect upon what the conversion which Pope Francis calls for can begin in us and among us.

Here are a number of resources
for preparing prayer for the Care of Creation

New - a 3 minute video "On Care for God's Creation" created by the US Catholic Bishops and Catholic Relief Services.

A prayer service proposed by the Vatican's Pontifical Coucil for Justice and Peace.

A short video, prepared by the Pontifical Council.

A Prayer Service for Parish Use, by the Chicago Archiocese

A Number of Prayer Resources by the U.S. Catholic Bishops

Two Prayers at the End of the Encyclical

This is the letter in which Pope Francis called for September 1st, each year, to be a Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation.

Here are resources for personal and family prayer for the Care of Creation

Some things an individual might do for prayer on the Care of Creation.

Some things a family might do for prayer on the Care of Creation.