Dear God, our Creator,
You revealed your love to us and creation once and for all through the coming of our
Savior, Jesus Christ. By the grace of Your Creator Spirit, teach us to celebrate our faith
in the Incarnation that took place in creation.

Dear Jesus, Savior of creation, we ask that You may be born in us once again as we
seek to cultivate hope for our common home. As Your followers, teach us to care for
the dignity of all human beings and all creation, now and in the future.

In a season too often marked by overconsumption and excess, let us give thanks and
honor the goodness of all your gifts in the natural world. Help us to contemplate the
mystery of creation as we celebrate the mystery of incarnation.

We pray for today’s victims of global warming, both human and nonhuman. We pray for
more ambition in the energy transition, in this country and globally. We pray for our
governments to negotiate a global and fair phase-out of fossil fuels.

And, finally, we pray for the courage to be prophets of our time, calling upon our
leaders to bear fruits of ecological justice.
Come Emmanuel! Make us ever more hopeful people for a hopeful planet. Let us be
part of Your light of hope to the world.

Amen.

For more, please see the Laudato Si Advent Calendar