Next Wednesday, July 9, Leo XIV will preside over a private Mass with the employees of Borgo Laudato Si’, and will use for the first time the new set of prayers for the Mass “for the Care of Creation,” which was presented on Thursday, July 3, at the Holy See Press Office.

At the press conference, Jesuit Cardinal Michael Czerny, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, and Franciscan Archbishop Vittorio Francesco Viola, Secretary of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, took part.

The set of prayers—initiated already during the pontificate of Pope Francis—will be added to the Missae “pro variis necessitatibus vel ad diversa” of the Roman Missal, which already contains 49 Masses and prayers for various needs and occasions: 20 related to the Church, 17 to civil needs, and 12 for various circumstances.

The new texts, Cardinal Czerny explained, are framed against the backdrop of two significant anniversaries: the “Message for the World Day of Peace” signed by Saint John Paul II thirty-five years ago, in 1990, and entitled Peace with God the Creator, Peace with All of Creation; and the tenth anniversary of the Encyclical Laudato Si’, on care for our common home, signed by Pope Francis in 2015.