Day of Prayer for Creation: The Church's Call to Protect the Environmenttranslated

The day of prayer for creation is marked on September 1, at the beginning of the Church Year, through a call of the Church to protect the environment and to assume responsibility for God's creation.
The initiative was launched in 1989 by Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios I, who called the Christian world to pray for creation and its protection. The approach was continued by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, known for his constant concern for protecting the environment.
In the message sent this year, His Holiness reaffirms the Ecumenical Patriarchate's commitment to promoting responsibility towards creation: "We will continue, by word and deed, to promote the ecological vision of the Holy Church of Christ and the ecological dynamism of the Eucharistic, ascetic and doxological relationship with creation".
A crisis of human freedom Patriarch Bartholomew I shows that environmental problems cannot be separated from the way man understands his freedom and relationship with God.
"The contemporary ecological crisis is a crisis of human freedom, of our religion and philosophy, of our ethos and culture. What lies at the beginning is…



