{"id":9132,"date":"2025-07-09T14:31:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/2025\/07\/09\/laudato-si-becomes-a-mass-for-creation\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T18:42:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T16:42:51","slug":"laudato-si-becomes-a-mass-for-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/2025\/07\/09\/laudato-si-becomes-a-mass-for-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"Laudato Si’ becomes a Mass for Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u201cPraise be to you, my Lord, for sister Mother Earth, who sustains us and governs us, and produces various fruits with the colorful flowers and grass\u201d<\/h5>
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\u201cThere is hope!\u201d Pope’s homily<\/strong><\/p>

In his homily<\/a>, Pope Leo XIV meditated on the Gospel of the calmed storm (Mt 8:23-27), drawing a powerful parallel with our own times.<\/p>

\u201cIn a world that is afire\u201d, he declared, \u201cas much from global warming as from armed conflict, we can find ourselves in the fear of the disciples. A fear that is shared by a large part of humanity.”<\/h5>

But in the face of this anguish, the Pope proclaimed the central message of the Jubilee Year: “There is hope! We have encountered it in Jesus. He still calms the storm.”<\/span> He recalled that the power of Christ does not destroy, but \u201ccreates and gives new life\u201d. <\/p>

The Holy Father thus refocused the vocation of Christians:<\/p>

\u201cOur mission to care for Creation, to bring peace and reconciliation to it, is the Lord’s own mission, the one he has entrusted to us.\u201d<\/h5>

He urged the faithful to convert their gaze: \u201cOnly a contemplative gaze<\/strong> can change our relationship with created things and lead us out of the ecological crisis caused by the rupture of relationships\u2014with God, with our neighbor, and with the earth\u2014resulting from sin.\u201d<\/p>

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A theme at the heart of every Eucharist<\/strong><\/p>

This attention to nature is not new. In fact, it’s already present at every Mass. As Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ<\/a> reminds us, when we offer bread and wine, we present \u201cthe fruit of the earth… the fruit of the vine… and of human work\u201d. <\/p>

During the celebration of the Eucharist, \u201cthe whole cosmos gives thanks to God\u2026 The Eucharist joins heaven and earth; it embraces and penetrates all creation\u201d (Laudato Si’ <\/em><\/a>, 236).<\/p>

So why this mass?<\/p>

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A key moment to rekindle our ecological awareness<\/strong><\/p>

As a direct response to Laudato Si’<\/em>‘s call to \u201cecological conversion\u201d<\/strong>, this Mass is a celebration in which the Church’s entire prayer is turned specifically to the gift of Creation.<\/p>

It is a key moment for rekindling our ecological awareness. It offers the whole community \u201cliturgical, spiritual and community support\u201d<\/strong> to transform our prayer into concrete action, and take care, day by day, of our common home. <\/p>

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\u201cEverything is connected\u201d: when liturgy becomes a source of action<\/strong><\/p>

This new formulary is much more than a simple liturgical option; it is the prayerful translation of the encyclical Laudato Si’<\/em>. The Second Vatican Council affirms that the liturgy is the source and summit of the Christian life<\/strong> (Sacrosanctum Concilium<\/em><\/a> , 10). For Father Gilles Drouin<\/a>, Director of the Institut Sup\u00e9rieur de Liturgie in Paris, \u201cit is therefore important that there should not be, on the one hand, a message, a moral injunction, and, on the other, the way in which we pray\u201d. \u201cEverything is linked\u201d, according to the expression popularized by Pope Francis to speak of integral ecology. <\/p>

To root our commitment to Creation in the celebration of the Eucharist is to draw the impetus for action from the very source of our faith. As Pope Leo XIV concluded: <\/p>

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On July 9, 2025, Pope Leo XIV celebrated the Mass for the care of Creation for the first time from the gardens of Castel Gandolfo. A true liturgical translation of the encyclical Laudato Si’, this new Mass formulary intimately links the Eucharist with respect for Creation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9133,"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132\/revisions\/9133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}