Catholic Climate Pledge

I/We Pledge to:
PRAY and reflect on the duty to care for God's creation and protect the poor and vulnerable.
LEARN about and educate others on the causes and moral dimensions of climate change.
ACCESS how we--as individuals and in our families, parishes, and other affiliations--contribute to climate change by our own energy use, consumption, waste, etc.
ACT to change our choices and behaviors to reduce the ways we contribute to climate change.
ADVOCATE for Catholic principles and priorities in climate change discussions and decisions, especially as they impact those who are poor and vulnerable.

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Pledge of Commitment to Protect and Heal God's Creation
The following pledge of commitment  may be read in unison or alternation.

We have come to renew our covenant with God and with one another in Christ Jesus, our Lord. We have come to protect God's creation.

We have come as followers of Jesus to commit ourselves anew to one another and to heal injustice and poverty.

We have come to stand together against all threats to life.

We have come to discover some new beauty every day in God's creation: the sunrise and sunset, birds, flowers, and trees, rainbows in the sky, the stars, the many forms of life in the forest.

We have come to listen to the "music of the universe"--water flowing over rocks, the wind, trees bending in the wind, raindrops pattering on the roof.

We will remember always that God speaks to us through the beauty of his creation, and we will try our best to answer God's call to reverence all that he has created.

source: http://catholicclimatecovenant.org/