Message for World Day of Prayer for Creation 2024 Released
On Thursday 27 June, Pope Francis released his message "Hope and Act" for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, 1 September 2024.
Date Posted:
30-Jun-2024
"We will enjoy and celebrate Earth’s beauty and bounty and her many species. We will honour our duty to love and care for her and add to her well-being wherever possible." (Chapter Statement)
"To hope and act with creation", the Pope says, "means above all to join forces and to walk together with all men and women of good will. In this way, we can help to rethink, “among other things, the question of human power, its meaning and its limits. Our power has frenetically increased in a few decades. We have made impressive and awesome technological advances, yet we have not realized that at the same time we have turned into highly dangerous beings, capable of threatening the lives of many beings and our own survival” (Laudate Deum, 28).