The Vatican released the texts for the new votive Mass “for the care of creation” Thursday and announced that Pope Leo XIV will use the new prayers for a private Mass with a group at Castel Gandolfo next week.
At 10 a.m. Rome time on July 3, the Holy See Press Office published a decree “on the formulary and Biblical readings for the Mass for the Care of Creation” – signed by the prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Cardinal Arthur Roche, and his secretary Archbishop Vittorio Viola, OFM – and held a press conference for the release of the same.
The new formulary for the Mass “pro custodia creationis,” approved by Pope Leo XIV, has been added to the Masses “pro variis necessitatibus vel ad diversa,” or votive Masses, of the Roman Missal.
According to the decree, and making reference to Pope Francis’ encyclical letter Laudato si’ (LS), it was “considered appropriate” by the dicastery to institute the new Mass formulary since “it is evident that the work of creation is seriously threatened because of the irresponsible use and abuse of the goods God has endowed to our care (cf. Laudato si’ n. 2).”
Vatican News announced Thursday that Pope Leo XIV “will celebrate the first ‘Mass for the Care of Creation’” on July 9 in a private occasion with the staff of the “Borgo Laudato Sì’,” an educational group established by Pope Francis at Castel Gandolfo to promote “ecological conversion,” according to his encyclical letter.
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