Prayer for the Year of Laudato Si’

Loving God, Creator of Heaven, Earth, and all therein contained.
Open our minds and touch our hearts, so that we can be part of Creation, your gift.
Be present to those in need in these difficult times, especially the poorest and most vulnerable.  Help us to show creative solidarity as we confront the consequences of the global pandemic.  Make us courageous in embracing the changes required to seek the common good.  Now more than ever, may we all feel interconnected and interdependent. Enable us to succeed in listening and responding to the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor. May their current sufferings become the birth-pangs of a more fraternal and sustainable world.
We pray through Christ our Lord, under the loving gaze
of Mary Help of Christians,
Amen.

Laudato Si' is Pope Francis encyclical letter on care for Our Common Home