{"id":55592,"date":"2025-09-04T13:19:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=55592"},"modified":"2025-09-04T13:19:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:19:42","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-celebrates-mass-for-creation-with-latin-prayers-in-castel-gandolfo-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/pope-leo-xiv-celebrates-mass-for-creation-with-latin-prayers-in-castel-gandolfo-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"El Papa Le\u00f3n XIV celebra la Misa por la creaci\u00f3n con oraciones en lat\u00edn en los jardines de Castel Gandolfo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 100%; margin-bottom: 25px;\">\n  <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/images\/sza2520.jpg?ssl=1\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; max-width: 100%\" \/><br \/>\n  <span style=\"text-align: right; font-style: italic;\">Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for the Care of Creation at Castel Gandolfo on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. \/ Credit: Vatican Media<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Vatican City, Jul 9, 2025 \/ 14:03 pm (CNA).<\/p>\n<p>It was a mix of liturgical old and new in the gardens of Castel Gandolfo on Wednesday as Pope Leo XIV inaugurated a special Mass for the Care of Creation \u2014 with key portions in the ancient language of Latin.<\/p>\n<p>Against a backdrop of green foliage and a large sculpture of Mary at the pope\u2019s traditional summer residence, the pontiff prayed July 9 for more people to be converted from \u201cthe excesses of the human being, with his style of life,\u201d which he said was a major\u00a0cause of the many natural disasters taking place around the world.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"mx-auto\" style=\"width:100%\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/admin.catholicnewsagency.com\/images\/sfo7924.jpg?quality=80&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"img-fluid\" style=\"null\" alt=\"Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for the Care of Creation at Castel Gandolfo on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. Credit: Vatican Media\"><figcaption class=\"caption text-muted\">Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for the Care of Creation at Castel Gandolfo on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. Credit: Vatican Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe should pray for the conversion of many people, in and outside of the Church, who still do not recognize the urgency of caring for creation, for our common home,\u201d he said, adding that the world is burning both because of global warming and armed conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>The pope also emphasized \u201cthe indestructible alliance between Creator and creatures,\u201d which he said \u201cmobilizes our intelligence and our efforts, so that evil may be turned into good, injustice into justice, greed into communion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The open-air celebration was likely the first use of the prayers and scriptural readings\u00a0specified for the new Mass formulary. Inspired by Pope Francis\u2019 environmental encyclical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html\" target=\"null\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>Laudato Si\u2019<\/em><\/a>, el <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/265157\/vatican-hopes-new-mass-prayers-will-renew-care-for-gods-creation\" target=\"null\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u201cMass for the Care of Creation\u201d<\/a> was presented at the Vatican on July 3.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pope Leo XIV celebrated the first Mass for the Care of Creation, a new formulary of the Roman Missal, at the Laudato Si\u2019 Village in Castel Gandolfo. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gd19HCz0DP\">pic.twitter.com\/Gd19HCz0DP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 EWTN Vatican (@EWTNVatican) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EWTNVatican\/status\/1942966207142908275?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"drag-handle\" data-drag-handle=\"true\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Mass, attended by around 50 people involved in the Castel Gandolfo-based environmental center Borgo Laudato Si\u2019, was celebrated in Italian but with Leo reciting certain prayers, including the collect and prayer over the offerings, in Latin.<\/p>\n<p>The Borgo Laudato Si\u2019 is an initiative to put into practice the principles for integral development outlined in Pope Francis\u2019 environmental encyclical <em>Laudato Si\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"mx-auto\" style=\"width:100%\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/admin.catholicnewsagency.com\/images\/sim8424-1.jpg?quality=80&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"img-fluid\" style=\"null\" alt=\"Pope Leo XIV poses with visitors at Castel Gandolfo on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. Credit: Vatican Media\"><figcaption class=\"caption text-muted\">Pope Leo XIV poses with visitors at Castel Gandolfo on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. Credit: Vatican Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Archbishop Vittorio Francesco Viola, secretary of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, told CNA by phone after the Mass that Pope Leo recited the prayers in Latin because that is how they appear in the \u201ctypical edition,\u201d meaning the approved original, while official translations have not yet been created.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPope Leo is absolutely familiar with Latin; it\u2019s certainly not a problem,\u201d the No. 2 at the Vatican\u2019s liturgy office added.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo gave some insight into his personal experience with the Latin language during a meeting with hundreds of children on July 3, when he explained that he was exposed to the universal language of the Church as an altar server from around age 6, when he would serve at 6:30 a.m. Mass every day before school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen it was in Latin; we still had to learn Latin for Mass, and then it changed to English,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it wasn\u2019t so much the language [the Mass] was celebrated in, but rather having that experience of meeting other young people who served Mass together, the friendship always, and then this closeness to Jesus in the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"mx-auto\" style=\"width:100%\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/admin.catholicnewsagency.com\/images\/l1031220.jpg?quality=80&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"img-fluid\" style=\"null\" alt=\"Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for the Care of Creation at Castel Gandolfo on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. Credit: Vatican Media\"><figcaption class=\"caption text-muted\">Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for the Care of Creation at Castel Gandolfo on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. Credit: Vatican Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The pope celebrated the Mass of Care for Creation July 9 during a planned two-week stay at the pontifical estate, located in the lakeside town of Castel Gandolfo, 18 miles southeast of Rome. The period of limited private and public engagements, which comes just two months into his pontificate, will end July 20.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo has revived the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/265193\/pope-leo-xiv-moves-to-the-second-vatican-city-castel-gandolfo\" target=\"null\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">400-year tradition<\/a> of papal vacationing at Castel Gandolfo, a practice eschewed by Pope Francis.<\/p>\n<p>Starting his homily for the July 9 Mass on the estate\u2019s gardens with a few improvised comments, the pontiff invited \u201ceveryone, beginning with myself, to experience that which we are celebrating in the beauty of what you could say is a \u2018natural\u2019 cathedral, with the plants and many elements of creation which they have brought here for us to celebrate the Eucharist, which means, render thanks to the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He pointed to a reflection pool in front of the altar and recalled a practice in the first centuries of Christianity of having the faithful enter a church by passing through a baptismal font.<\/p>\n<p>Leo joked that he would not want to be baptized in that specific water, which featured waterlilies and appeared to be green with algae, but he said the \u201csymbol of passing through the water to all be washed of our sins, of our weaknesses, and so be able to enter into the great mystery of the Church is something that we experience even today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Viola, who was present at Leo\u2019s Mass, noted the significance of the location, immersed in the beautiful gardens at a site of prayer for some of Leo\u2019s predecessors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe place where [the Mass] was celebrated was not chosen by chance, because it is the place where several pontiffs stopped to pray during their periods of rest in Castel Gandolfo, before that image of the Virgin Mary,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Viola called it \u201ca place that has always preserved a dimension of prayer and the prayer of the popes. And so gathering in that place was significant, as if to preserve the heart of [Borgo Laudato Si\u2019] that is being built on the indications of <em>Laudato Si\u2019<\/em>, which is a heart of spirituality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo, reflecting on the Gospel passage read at Mass \u2014 Jesus\u2019 calming of the storm at sea \u2014 said the Lord\u2019s disciples, \u201cat the mercy of the storm, gripped by fear,\u201d could not yet profess knowledge of Jesus as heard in the first reading, from St. Paul\u2019s Letter to the Colossians, that \u201che is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For in him were created all things in heaven and on earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe today,\u201d the pontiff added, \u201cin the faith that has been passed on to us, can instead continue: \u2018He is also the head of the body, the Church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that in all things he might have preeminence.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are words that commit us throughout history, that make us a living body, the body of which Christ is the head. Our mission to protect creation, to bring it peace and reconciliation, is his own mission: the mission that the Lord has entrusted to us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/265265\/pope-leo-xiv-celebrates-mass-for-creation-with-latin-prayers-in-castel-gandolfo-gardens\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/265265\/pope-leo-xiv-celebrates-mass-for-creation-with-latin-prayers-in-castel-gandolfo-gardens<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for the Care of Creation at Castel Gandolfo on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. \/ Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Jul 9, 2025 \/ 14:03 pm (CNA). 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