September 2026

God our Father,
may your Promise of new heavens and a new earth
resound today throughout creation, in the scorched forests,
the rivers without water, the fruitless trees…
May it resound in the hearts of people who are afraid to bring a child into the world,
who no longer know how to care for the elderly…
To us, whose hearts are parched, grant the living water of your grace.
Without your Breath, life dies! We call upon it in our nights,
and through Him, may you bless us, grant us helping hands, true joy,
and the hope that lifts us up!
Through Jesus, the Living One, the First of the New Creation…

Lord, as you know, sometimes we are not free to choose;
we find ourselves caught up in a cycle of impulses.
We ask you for the grace to discern life’s callings.
Together with the farmers, market gardeners and livestock farmers whom the drought is putting to the test,
grant that we may choose solidarity.
Together with the elderly who suffer from loneliness and a lack of consideration,
grant that we may keep them within a spirit of brotherly fellowship.
With the ever-growing number of peoples who see rising within their midst
racist ideologies that threaten the future,
grant us the grace to choose fraternity without exclusion.
With the advocates of integral ecology who are devising
new ways of living in simplicity, ready to pay the price,
grant us the grace to allow ourselves to be challenged.

To pray to you for creation, God our Father, is to ask you for the grace
to care for our relationships – with ourselves, with others, our sisters and brothers,
with all of creation: animals, plants, trees, the entire cosmos.
Above all, to care for our relationship with you, Lord, who gave us life
and who sustains us at every moment, in a breath of freedom
that does not wish to shape the future without us…
Keep us from losing heart in the face of the alarming imbalances in our ecosystem
and inspire us with the actions of those humble hands that set us on a path of hope.
We pray this through Jesus and in the Spirit who makes all things new.

Lord our God,
we bless you for your Creation, this earth from which we were born
and which you have entrusted to us to care for,
so that we may fill it with our love, our sharing, and our forgiveness.
Ever since the rainbow in the clouds—that sign of the covenant between You and the earth—
You have never ceased to forge bonds,
to leave traces of Your invisible presence,
to invite us to choose life.
Despite your eagerness to see us live up to your Word,
you always begin anew,
you renew the offer of your Covenant,
you wish to inscribe your Law of love deep within our beings, upon our hearts,
so that all may know the Tenderness that sustains them…

God,
great, living, present, beautiful in all your creation,
be blessed for this time of celebration of your work of creation,
which is not merely a setting for life but a covenant with humanity.
For your Breath that hovered over the waters from the very beginning,
for the morning star and the stars of the night,
set in the firmament,
for fire, water and wind!
Everything speaks to us of You: Blessed be You!
Through Your Word, You ceaselessly create every element of the cosmos today:
the teeming life of creatures in the water, on the earth and in the heavens,
Everything speaks to us of You: Blessed be You!
Through Christ, the ‘Alpha and Omega’ of the universe,
matter is sanctified.
From the infinitely great to the infinitely small,
everything has meaning and finds its purpose,
Everything speaks to us of You: Blessed be You!
Through this participation in communal prayer within the cosmic liturgy,
where all—humans, animals and plants—unite to praise You,
for everything speaks to us of You: Blessed be You!

Lord our God,
At this special time of prayer for creation,
we ask you to help us receive it as a gift
bestowed upon us freely,
to work for its preservation,
to turn our hearts
so that we may walk in this world doing good as You,
Lord, have done,
and as You ask us to continue to do,
inspired by the Spirit whom You never cease to send to us today and for ever and ever.

Holy God,

whose Spirit hovered over the waters

at the beginning of creation, be blessed!

For the gift of water that nourishes the cedar, the pastures and the city, be blessed!

Come, Holy Spirit, and convert us, that we may help you heal what has been poisoned

by plastics, toxins, oil spills,

and contaminated fishing waters, from which children drink polluted water.

For the gift of water that quenches thirst, cleanses and waters the gardens, be blessed!

Come, Holy Spirit, and convert us,

for we confess that we treat this gift as a commodity

to the detriment of the seas choked with waste,

and the cracked, barren earth that drives into exile

climate refugees with tears of salt…

Melt our hearts of ice and let the tears of repentance flow!