Words of welcome: Words of welcome: “The annual World Day of prayer for the care of Creation offers to individual believers and to community a precious opportunity to renew our personal participation in this vocation as custodians of creation, raising to...
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Words of welcome: Words of welcome: “The annual World Day of prayer for the care of Creation offers to individual believers and to community a precious opportunity to renew our personal participation in this vocation as custodians of creation, raising to God our thanks for the marvellous works that He has entrusted to our care, invoking his help for the protection of creation and his mercy for the sins committed against the world in which we live.” (Pope Francis, extract of the official announcement of that Day of Prayer, August 6, 2015) Opening hymn: All creatures of our God and King, in Lift up your hearts: psalms, hymns and spiritual songs 551 1st Reading: A letter of Paul to the Romans, 8, 18-25 18 - I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us. 19 - For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God; 20 - for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by th
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