Laudato Si’ Contemplative Vigil
Meet creation with love in a 10-hour vigil to mark the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si’.
Contemplation heals
At the root of our ecological crisis is a spiritual crisis.
A day to reflect
Each hour of contemplation in this 10-hour event is guided by a quotation from Laudato Si’ and by the unique wisdom of leading contemplative communities.
WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT TO FIND?
Songs
Raise your spirit with sacred melodies
Silence
Find peace in shared stillness
Communion
Connect with people from around the world
Readings
Reflect with inspiring texts
Images
Contemplate visual beauty
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Opening session
- }19.00 Manila
- }12.00 Rome
- }8.00 Rio de Janeiro
- }6.00 New York
- }5.00 Mexico City
Opening session to explore how contemplation and action for creation are connected.
“Christian spirituality proposes an alternative understanding of the quality of life, and encourages a prophetic and contemplative lifestyle.” (LS 222)
- Led by: Laudato Si’ Movement, World Community for Christian Meditation, and Contemplative Outreach
- Facilitators: Christina Leaño, LSM, Jim Green, WCCM, Mary Jane Yates, Contemplative Outreach
- Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and French.
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Contemplative moment from Assisi
- }19.30 Manila
- }12.30 Rome
- }8.30 Rio de Janeiro
- }6.30 New York
- }5.30 Mexico City
- Led by Assisi Terra Laudato Si’
- Facilitators: Antonio Caschetto and Tomás Insua (Centro Laudato Si'), Friar Simone Ceccobao OFM, Matteo Manicardi (Artisti per la Creazione)
- Languages: Italian, English
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Nature is filled with words of love
- }20.00 Manila
- }13.00 Rome
- }9.00 Rio de Janeiro
- }7.00 New York
- }6.00 Mexico City
“Nature is filled with words of love, but how can we listen to them amid constant noise, and interminable and nerve-wracking distractions?” (LS 225)
- Facilitator: Taizé
- Language: English
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“Rapidification: Humanity’s Accelerating Impact on the Planet”
- }21.00 Manila
- }14.00 Rome
- }10.00 Rio de Janeiro
- }8.00 New York
- }7.00 Mexico City
“The continued acceleration of changes affecting humanity and the planet is coupled today with a more intensified pace of life and work which might be called ‘rapidification’. Although change is part of the working of complex systems, the speed with which human activity has developed contrasts with the naturally slow pace of biological evolution.” (LS 18)
- Facilitator: Steeven Kezamutima, LSM Africa
- Language: French
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Contemplative Rest: Guarding Against Empty Activism and Greed
- }22.00 Manila
- }15.00 Rome
- }11.00 Rio de Janeiro
- }9.00 New York
- }8.00 Mexico City
“Contemplative rest…protects human action from becoming empty activism; it also prevents that unfettered greed and sense of isolation which make us seek personal gain to the detriment of all else.” (LS 237)
- Led by Green Mountain Monastery
- Facilitators: Sr. Amie Hendani and Sr. Gail Worcelo, Green Mountain Monastery
- Language: English
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The Perils of Pride: Embracing Humility for a Sustainable Future
- }23.00 Manila
- }16.00 Rome
- }12.00 Rio de Janeiro
- }10.00 New York
- }9.00 Mexico City
“Once we lose our humility, and become enthralled with the possibility of limitless mastery over everything, we inevitably end up harming society and the environment. It is not easy to promote this kind of healthy humility or happy sobriety when we consider ourselves autonomous, when we exclude God from our lives or replace him with our own ego, and think that our subjective feelings can define what is right and what is wrong.” (LS 224)
- Led by Contemplative Outreach
- Facilitator: Fr. Roy Thomas SVD, UISG-USG
- Language: English, Italian
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Integral Ecology: Rediscovering Harmony with Creation and the Creator
- }24.00 Manila
- }17.00 Rome
- }13.00 Rio de Janeiro
- }11.00 New York
- }10.00 Mexico City
“An integral ecology includes taking time to recover a serene harmony with creation, reflecting on our lifestyle and our ideals, and contemplating the Creator who lives among us and surrounds us, whose presence ‘must not be contrived but found, uncovered.’” (LS 225)
- Facilitator Fray Santiago González, OFM Franciscans
- Languages: English, Spanish
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Serene Attentiveness: Embracing Life as a Gift from God
- }1.00 Manila
- }18.00 Rome
- }14.00 Rio de Janeiro
- }12.00 New York
- }11.00 Mexico City
“We are speaking of an attitude of the heart, one which approaches life with serene attentiveness, which is capable of being fully present to someone without thinking of what comes next, which accepts each moment as a gift from God to be lived to the full.” (LS 226)
- Facilitator: Contemplative Outreach
- Language: English
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The Silent Voice of Creation: Discovering God’s Message in Nature
- }2.00 Manila
- }19.00 Rome
- }15.00 Rio de Janeiro
- }13.00 New York
- }12.00 Mexico City
“This contemplation of creation allows us to discover in each thing a teaching which God wishes to hand on to us, since ‘for the believer, to contemplate creation is to hear a message, to listen to a paradoxical and silent voice’”. (LS 85)
- Facilitator: Laurence Freeman OSB, WCCM
- Language: English
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From Internal Deserts to Renewal: The Call for Ecological Conversion
- }3.00 Manila
- }20.00 Rome
- }16.00 Rio de Janeiro
- }14.00 New York
- }13.00 Mexico City
“‘The external deserts in the world are growing, because the internal deserts have become so vast’. For this reason, the ecological crisis is also a summons to profound interior conversion.” (LS 217)
- Facilitator: Philip Nahlik SJ, Ignatian
- Language: English
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Seeing with Wonder: Christ’s Invitation to Contemplate Creation’s Beauty
- }4.00 Manila
- }21.00 Rome
- }17.00 Rio de Janeiro
- }15.00 New York
- }14.00 Mexico City
“The Lord was able to invite others to be attentive to the beauty that there is in the world because he himself was in constant touch with nature, lending it an attention full of fondness and wonder. As he made his way throughout the land, he often stopped to contemplate the beauty sown by his Father, and invited his disciples to perceive a divine message in things: ‘Lift up your eyes, and see how the fields are already white for harvest’ (Jn 4:35). ‘The kingdom of God is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field; it is the smallest of all seeds, but once it has grown, it is the greatest of plants’” (Mt 13:31-32). (LS 97)
- Led by Laudato Si’ Movement and others
- Facilitators: Christina Leaño, LSM Taynã Malaspina, WCCM Mary Jane Yates, Contemplative Outreach
- Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and French.
Why contemplation?
Pope Francis
Contemplation allows us to more fully understand and inhabit our role in creation. It provides a space for prayers to protect our common home. It helps us encounter the present with awareness and love.
Why is it important?
Celebrate Christian Contemplation
Recognize its role in addressing the ecological and climate crisis, especially in the light of Laudato Si’’s 10th anniversary.
Create a Shared Space
Bring people from around the world together in a moment of contemplation for our planet.
Build Lasting Connections
Foster stronger relationships between networks and communities committed to creation care for future collaboration.
Why now?
Grounding in contemplation gives us strength and peace throughout the breakthrough year of action in 2025.