Jesuits for Climate Justice Campaign | Prayer Guide
As the world gathers in Antalya, Türkiye, for COP31 – the 31st United Nations Climate Change Conference –, the Society of Jesus continues walking the journey towards socio-environmental justice. Grounded in faith and solidarity, the Jesuits for Climate Justice: Faith in Action at COP31 global campaign seeks to lift up the voices of communities already bearing the heaviest consequences of the climate crisis and calls for courageous and urgent action.
Our shared advocacy focuses on three calls:
1. The urgent need for a just and equitable energy transition.
2. More robust and accessible funds for Adaptation and for Losses and Damages.
3. Food systems based on agroecology and food sovereignty, as well as on the knowledge, rights and leadership of local communities.
Inspired by the fourth Universal Apostolic Preference – to collaborate in the care of our Common Home – this guide is an invitation to prayer, reflection, and renewed commitment. May it help us to listen deeply to the cry of the Earth and the cry of Creation, seek God’s wisdom, and find the courage to embrace the ecological conversion our time demands.
This guide is the fruit of collaboration across the Society of Jesus. It brings together drawings by students from the International Federation of Fe y Alegría, Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege, and Pulangiyēn Youth (RAOEN) with reflections from Jesuit Scholastics responding to students worldwide who participated in the “Letters to the Earth” Education Initiative.
As we reflect on their words and the images they have been inspired to create, let us pray together. May our shared hope become concrete and sustained action for our common home and our future.
