Ways to Get Involved: Worship
Liturgical celebrations
Ask your bishop and pastor to celebrate a Mass that focuses on our moral obligation to care for creation and our vulnerable neighbors.
Prayer and worship resources
- U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
- Carmelite NGO A Novena of Creation: English and Spanish
- Tree Planting Prayer in Honor of Laudato Si', Catholic Health Association of the USA
- Catholic Climate Covenant
- Homily Helps
- Climate Action Day Morning Prayer for parochial schools (Archdiocese of Chicago)
- Lenten Novena for Earth Defenders (Sisters of Mercy, Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach)
Catholic Climate Covenant’s Earth Day Program
The one-hour educational program includes prayers, readings, a short video, and suggested activities. Download here..
Joliet Area Earth Day 50th Anniversary Climate March and Rally
The Joliet Area Earth Day 50th Anniversary Climate March and Rally for climate, jobs, and justice! The Diocese of Joliet and the University of St. Francis (host) are two of several organizational leaders of this march and rally. Visit the Facebook event page for more details.
Laudato Si Year
The urgent challenge to protect our common home includes a concern to bring the whole human family together to seek a sustainable and integral development…Humanity still has the ability to work together in building our common home. Young people demand change. They wonder how anyone can claim to be building a better future without thinking of the environmental crisis and the sufferings of the excluded. (Laudato Si’ 13)