Integrity of Creation
The Season of Creation takes place each year from September 1st, the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation,to October 4th, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi.
The season invites all Christians and all people of faith and good will to reflect prayerfully on the gifts of Creation and the mission given us by God to care for Creation
and respond to its needs and crisis today.
This year’s theme of Peace With Creation calls attention
to the devastation of Creation surrounding us on Earth in these times.
The list is extensive and familiar. Climate change bringing more frequent and severe storms globally, droughts, flooding, wildfires, and more.
This destruction is due to injustice, broken relationships with God, ourselves,
the peoples of Earth and the rest of Creation.
Those broken relationships become apparent in wars,
in the habit of prioritizing profits over the needs and rights of Creation,
in aggravated racial and social injustices, and in the promotion of overconsumption, unsustainable lifestyles, and throwaway cultures.
Together these amount to a global war against Creation.
Without justice for all Creation, there will be no peace.
Without peace, Creation cannot flourish.
Our hope then is for Peace with Creation,
that Creation will find peace and will flourish when justice is restored.
Realizing that hope will require a transformative change of mind and heart
and the emerging of global solidarity.
Though it is a massive and challenging mission,
by the grace of God, that process is underway.
As co-workers with the Creator,
we ask to be open to the Spirit, poured out upon us,
to be transformed in mind and heart,
guided to ecological conversion and to profound love of our cosmic family,
working together for Peace with Creation.
For with God all things are possible!
This is the spirit, the emerging integral ecological spirituality,
in which we are invited to approach the 2025 Season of Creation,
living into a transformed future to which God is calling us.
Earth Day 2025
The 2025 Earth Day program focuses on building a healthy, sustainable future for all and advocating for Renewable Energy Now. 
Program for Earth Day 2025
Embarking on the 2025 Pilgrimage of Hope for Creation
(Prayer based on Spes Non Confundit, the Papal Bull announcing the Jubilee Year)
Come Holy Spirit, illuminate us with the light of hope and give us the faith, patience, strength, determination, courage and grace:
to hear the cry of creation, gravely damaged by human selfishness;
to work to heal, redeem, and renew our common home;
to lift up creation’s beauty, in a prayer of thanksgiving to God;
to banish climate despair;
to promote peace and reconciliation;
to offer signs of hope to migrants;
to draw close to those lacking the essentials of life;
to never avert our eyes from the faces of our brothers and sisters in need;
to defend the rights of those who are most vulnerable;
to ensure that the goods of the earth are shared with all;
to forgive the debts of countries that will never be able to repay them;
to seek justice and mercy for the broken and lost;
to call for acts of clemency and liberation that enables new beginnings;
to sow seeds of beauty and kindness;
to recover the joy of living;
to be singers of abounding hope;
and generously share it with all God’s beloved children.
We pray this in the name of the One who came to bring hope to all creation, Jesus Christ. Amen
LaudatoSi Newsletter1st Qtr2025
Laudato Si Week Reflections
Thanks to the Office Peace, Justice and Integrity of Creation, Sisters of Charity of New York and the Office of Peace, Justice and Ecological Integrity, Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, we are sharing the following Contemplative Guide for Laudato Si’ Week 2024: Seeds of Hope.
Seeds of Hope
Laudato Si’-Second Quarter 2024 Newsletter
This issue of the Head, Hands and Heart Newsletter has a focus on land, exploring different views of the land: those of indigenous peoples, as well as legal forms of land ownership.
Laudate Deum
Pope Francis’s Laudate Deum exhortation , released just a few weeks before COP28, calls on governments and other stakeholders to step forward and responsibly address the climate emergency to mitigate and eventually reverse this truly global crisis afflicting God’s beloved creation and our poorest sisters and brothers .
Laudate Deum is a concrete call for truly ensuring multilateralism as a governance capable to establish and implement global and effective rules for “global safeguarding”. A democratic and inclusive space where civil society voices could be heard, where all countries have a role to play, where the compass is the common good and not a “world authority concentrated in one person or in an elite with excessive power” (LD 35).
Looking towards COP28, each State party is currently finalizing its negotiating position. It is therefore most important to advocate within each country or region to arrive in Dubai with clear commitments
to implement the Paris Agreement.
Laudate Deum – Advocacy Towards COP28
End of Year Updates
This November/December issue of the Grange newsletter ends the year with a different content format. Laudate Deum, the sequel to Laudato Si’, is reviewed
along with coverage of the Synod which ended this October. Testimonials from our Grange Community highlight how the climate crisis is affecting our lives. In light of these topics, we are including a section on climate anxiety and
eco-therapists.
LaudatoSi_Nov_Dec 2023
Issue of Environmental and Climate Justice
This May/June issue of the Grange newsletter examines the meaning and movements behind Climate Justice and Environmental Justice. These terms, though different, both relate to our planetary home. We hope the material offered for your under-standing and reflection will be encouraging and give impetus to action. We can make an impact. It is up to us!
LaudatoSi_May/June2023
Issue of Activism
The March /April newsletter highlights people and movements around the world
that are making a difference protecting our common home. Individual and collective action can make a difference! Greta Thunberg states, “I’m telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.”
LaudatoSi_March-April 2023 (Heads, Hands, Heart)
Issue of Energy
The Jan/Feb edition of the Benedictine Grange newsletter considers energy’s role within climate change. The issues are complex. As people of faith, we must ask ourselves how we are treating God’s gift of creation.
Heads, Hands, Heart Newsletter on Energy
Problem of Plastics
Pope Francis says “we cannot allow our seas and oceans to be littered by endless fields of floating plastic. Here too, our active commitment is needed to confront this emergency. Thanks to the Benedictine Grange of which our own Terry Eppridge is a part, we can post here their November/December Newsletter dealing with many aspects of the problem of plastics.
Laudato Si Head, Hands, Heart Newsletter