"The environment is God's gift to everyone,
and in our use of it we have a responsibility
towards the poor,
towards future generations
and towards humanity as a whole."
(Pope Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate)
Pope Francis recently declared September 1 as the
World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation
According to Pope Francis, “The annual World Day of prayer for the Care of Creation offers to individual believers and to the community a precious opportunity to renew our personal participation in this vocation as custodians of creation, raising to God our thanks for the marvellous works that He has entrusted to our care, invoking his help for the protection of creation and his mercy for the sins committed against the world in which we live.”
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