Today, at a Vatican press conference, the addition of the formula for a Eucharist "pro custodia creationis" ("for the care of creation") was announced.
Cardinal Michael Czerny of the Curia said that Pope Leo XIV will use the new formula during a Mass next week at Castel Gandolfo, the popes' summer residence.
The text was published a decade after Pope Francis's environmental encyclical, "Laudato Si'."
The prayer adopts a moralizing tone, calling on Catholics to "lovingly care" for creation and "learn to live in harmony with all creatures."
Cardinal Czerny said that this text "calls us to be faithful stewards of what God has entrusted to us — not only in our daily choices and public policies, but also in our prayers, worship, and way of living in the world."
Pope Francis was a firm proponent of caring for "Mother Earth" and was the first pope to urge nations to reduce their carbon emissions in line with the 2015 United Nations Paris climate accord.
"Pope Leo will undoubtedly carry this pastoral and civil concern forward," said Jesuit Father Bruce Morrill, a liturgist at Vanderbilt University in the U.S., in an interview with Reuters.com.
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