Lent 2025 Session Four: Praying with and for the Environment
In this fourth session of our Lent series, we pray with and for the environment, seeking forgiveness for our role in environmental degradation, listening to the word of God, and discerning “what is mine to do.”
This prayer service was developed by Ariell Watson Simon and led by Molly Sutter. Readers are Ann Farah and Daryl Grigsby.
The series will continue to unfold over this sacred season as we pray with and for vulnerable populations and see where our gifts and joys might meet their needs. Learn more at https://futurechurch.org/lent-2025.
Music:
- “There Is a Light” © 1992, Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam. and spiritandsong®.. All rights reserved.
- “Sacred Creation” © 1990, Rufino Zaragoza, OFM. Published by OCP. All rights reserved.
- Used and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-737115.
Confiteor adapted by Ariell Watson Simon
I confess to Creator God,
to Brother Sun, to Sister Moon,
to all that lives and moves around me,
and to you, my sisters and brothers,
That I have greatly sinned,
in my thoughtless consumption and in my broken resolutions;
In my willful ignorance, and in the despair that leads me to opt-out;
in what I have done to contribute to the destruction of the environment,
and in what I have failed to do to prevent it;
Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault.
Therefore I ask Saint Francis of Assisi,
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha (patron of ecology),
all my spiritual ancestors,
and you, my sisters and brothers,
to pray with me for our Common Home.
Amen.
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