New website to celebrate Creation Day with new Mass

The World Day of Prayer for Creation, also known as Creation Day, is coming up soon, on September 1. That celebration will then kick off the extended Season of Creation.

A new website compiles useful resources to support the liturgical celebrations of this special day with the new Mass that Pope Leo added to the Missal: www.WorldDayCreation.com

The website features the liturgical texts and various pastoral ideas to enrich the eucharistic celebrations, while also providing formation resources to understand the importance of this ecumenical observance and the practicalities about how to celebrate the new Mass.

This year, the theme chosen by Pope Leo for the day of prayer on September 1 is: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks” (Is 2:4).

The new website was prepared by a working group comprising various continental episcopal bodies and Catholic networks. It follows a webinar last June featuring church leaders and liturgical scholars who explained the importance and practicalities of the liturgical celebrations of this day.

The hope is that these new resources can support Catholic parishes and communities with the novelty of this liturgy, while other Christian churches also celebrate this observance with enhanced liturgical formats such as that of the “Feast of Creation in Christ” in their calendars. Bottom line, it is about “unity in diversity” as we celebrate this special day with our various liturgical modalities.

Ready for Creation Day? Will you be able to share the new website in your community and networks?

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