The Laudato Si’ Movement is turning 10!
We hope you will find inspiration from this monthly Prayer Guide Series from the Laudato Si’ Movement.
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Laudato Si’ Animator Sister Cristita de Leon, MSSC, Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Mandalay, Myanmar, developed this Prayer Guide and invites into reflection and prayer through her own experiences. Follow along during April.
Quote of the month
“All it takes is one good person to restore hope! The biblical tradition clearly shows that this renewal entails recovering and respecting the rhythms inscribed in nature by the hand of the Creator.” LS 71
My journey into Laudato Si as an Animator:
I am Sister Cristita de Leon, a Filipina Columban Missionary serving in Mandalay, Myanmar, since 2015. For five years, I engaged in interreligious dialogue by teaching English in a Buddhist monastery, fostering understanding and solidarity between faith communities. However, when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, my mission took a new and unexpected direction—one that would deepen my commitment to caring for our Common Home.
A Personal Awakening: The Wounds of Environmental Destruction
In 2020, I became a Laudato Si’ Animator, a journey that prompted me to re-examine the painful reality of my own family’s history. In 2001, a flood-control project initiated by our local government altered the course of a river, devastating our agricultural land. What had once been a fertile source of livelihood for generations was buried under layers of sand, leaving my family powerless and resigned to our fate. At the time, we did not question what had happened—we simply endured. But as I deepened my understanding of the ecological crisis, I saw our personal loss reflected in a much larger, global reality: human actions— driven by neglect, greed, and short-term interests—were inflicting irreversible damage on the Earth, uprooting lives, and severing people from their ancestral lands. This realization ignited in me a renewed sense of mission.
Pray for…
a just, habitable and sustainable common home.
By Br. Daniel Castellanos Velasco, MsPS
Merciful God and Creator of all,
We praise You for the gift of the earth,
home to so many forms of life
The common home of peoples, cultures,
and species
We have made it an unjust place
where some consume and pollute more
than others, and
the poorest face the greatest impacts of
climate change.
Therefore, we ask You to help us achieve
climate and ecological justice
So that no one takes for themselves what
belongs to all,
that we may share the world’s goods
equitably, and live simply
so that we may bear witness that the earth
is the sister and mother of all.
Help us to respect its rhythms of
regeneration, so that it may sustain all
living beings both in the present and for
future generations.
Amen.
April Prayer Guide
The Paschal Triduum leads us through Christ’s Passion and Death to the radiant joy of the Resurrection. Easter renews our hope—light overcomes darkness, love conquers fear, and life is restored. Just as Christ rises, we too are called to renewal, embracing creation with gratitude and care.
This prayer guide, for individual or collective use, offers reflections and testimonies from our global family to pray, contemplate, reflect, and act for our common home.
This year, we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si’, our movement, and 800 years of the Canticle of the Creatures—milestones that remind us to live in harmony with creation. Guided by the Pope’s prayer intentions for 2025, we seek the courage to act, the strength to love, and the hope to build a better future.
May the joy of the Resurrection inspire us to be living signs of God’s love for all creation
View or download this Laudato Si’ Movement Prayer Guide.
