The Holy Father dedicates this month’s Pope Video to the relationship of the human person to creation.
“For our relationship with all of creation” is his prayer intention for this Season of Creation, on the 800th anniversary of St Francis of Assisi’s Canticle of Creation and the 10th anniversary of the encyclical Laudato Si’.
In September’s the Pope Video, Pope Leo asks for prayers that inspired by St Francis we might experience our interdependence with all creatures who are loved by God and worthy of love and respect.
The Holy Father’s prayer intention this month is “For our relationship with all of creation.”
The video comes out within the context of the Season of Creation, an ecumenical period from September 1 to October 4 (the Feast of St Francis of Assisi) that unites Christians from various denominations in prayer and action for the care of the earth.
In the prayer the Pope recites in the video, he asks the Lord: “Help us to discover Your presence in all creation, so that…we may feel and know ourselves to be responsible for this common home where You invite us to care for, respect, and protect life.”
The continuity between the teaching of Pope Leo XIV and Pope Francis, the author of the 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’, is particularly evident in the reference to St Francis: “Like St Francis of Assisi, today we too want to say: ‘Praised be You, my Lord!’”
The video accompanying the Pope’s prayer intention, and the prayer itself, emphasise the special moment in which 2025 Season of Creation is taking place – it links two anniversaries: the 800th anniversary of St Francis of Assisi’s Canticle of Creation and the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si’.
Among those concelebrating that Mass was Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, which supported the production of this Pope Video.
“The Jubilee of Hope and the 10th anniversary of the Laudato Si’ invite us to live a moment of gratitude, commitment to and care for our common home,” the Cardinal said.
“All creatures, even the smallest, are expressions of God’s love. In prayer, we recognise the value and sacredness of every life. The Holy Father encourages us to discover God’s presence in creation.
“Contemplating it, we are called to care for it, be reconciled to it, to live in harmony with and defend it with a prophetic spirit, to respect every human person, and to promote lasting and sustainable peace.”
In his message, “Seeds of Peace and Hope,” for the 10th World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation (celebrated on September 1), Pope Leo says the destruction of nature, a consequence of human sin, affects most of all the poorest and most vulnerable. He says environmental justice is an urgent need that involves more than simply protecting the environment.
“For it is a matter of justice – social, economic and human,” as well as a theological requirement. Since the weakest suffer the worst consequences of climate change and environmental destruction, “care for creation becomes an expression of our faith and humanity.”
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