Daily Prayer - April 22, 2022 - Earth Day

The theme for Earth Day 2022 is “Invest in Our Planet.” 

Started in 1970, Earth Day is celebrated in over 190 countries on April 22. It is focused on community action to protect the planet. 

People are encouraged to do simple things like conserving water, cleaning up litter, recycling or reusing plastics, planting trees or gardens, turning off lights etc.  

In themselves these are small actions but if done by large numbers of people they add up to something significant.

 

Lord,

we need constant reminders of the need to look after our Earth.

Earth Day is one such reminder and we pray that people will heed the call to action and realise that their little actions do make a difference.

We pray also that those in government and in major companies, who can take much greater actions, will also respond to the cry of the earth for care and protection.  

Amen

 

By Fr Pat O'Shea - Lower Hutt