God of love, your fidelity outlasts the heavens. Joyfully trusting in you we pray: God, in your goodness, hear our prayer.  

Open our hearts to the call and challenge of Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Sí.  

God, in your goodness, hear our prayer.  

Help us to heed the counsel of scientists, health-care workers, and medical researchers.  

God, in your goodness, hear our prayer.  

Uphold efforts to address climate change through changes in human behavior.  

God, in your goodness, hear our prayer.  

Our Father . . .  

May God open our eyes to the beauty of the natural world and animate us to care for creation, through Jesus, Son of Mary. Amen.