DICASTERY FOR DIVINE WORSHIP AND THE DISCIPLINE OF THE SACRAMENTS
DECREE
on the formulary and Biblical readings
for the Mass for the Care of Creation
“Let Your works praise You, that we may love You; and let us love
You, that Your works may praise You (Augustine, Confessions, 13,33;
PL 32)
The mystery of creation is the beginning of salvation history,
which culminates in Christ and from the mystery of Christ it receives
definitive light; in fact, by manifesting His goodness, “in the beginning, God
created the heavens and the earth” (Gen 1,1) God already from these origins had
in mind the glory of the new creation in Christ.
Sacred Scripture exhorts humankind to contemplate the mystery of
creation and to give endless thanks to the Holy Trinity for this sign of His
benevolence, which, like a precious treasure, is to be loved, cherished and
simultaneously advanced, as well as handed down from generation to generation.
At this time 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).
This is why it is considered appropriate to add a Mass
formulary “pro custodia creationis” to the Missae “pro
variis necessitatibus vel ad diversa” of the Roman Missal.
In the Eucharist “The world which came forth from God’s hands
returns to him in blessed and undivided adoration: in the bread of the
Eucharist, ‘creation is projected towards divinization, towards the holy
wedding feast, towards unification with the Creator himself’ (Benedict
XVI, Homily for the Mass of Corpus Domini, 15 June
2006). Thus, the Eucharist is also a source of light and motivation for our
concerns for the environment, directing us to be stewards of all creation” (Laudato si’ n. 236).
The Supreme Pontiff LEO XIV approved this formulary along with
appropriate biblical readings, drawn up in Latin and attached to this Decree,
and ordered that they be disseminated, and now the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the
Sacraments promulgates it and declares it to be the typical
text.
Anything to the contrary notwithstanding.
From the Dicastery for the Divine Worship and the Discipline of
the Sacraments, 8 June 2025, Solemnity of Pentecost.
Arthur
Card. Roche
Prefect
Vittorio
Francesco Viola, O.F.M.
Archbishop Secretary
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