Theme of Pope Francis’ Message for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation 2024
The Vatican is hosting at St. Peter’s Square the photo exhibition Changes, which will be open to the public from May 7 to 27, 2024.
The Changes exhibition is curated by Lia and Marianna Beltrami, who founded the Emotions to Generate Change project. The Exhibition was organized Lia and Marianna Beltrami, jointly with the Dicastery for Communication, and in collaboration with the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and the Laudato si’ Higher Education Center.
The official opening took place on May 7 at 12:30 p.m. at the “Charlemagne Arm” of the Colonnade in St. Peter’s Square. In the afternoon of the same day, a Symposium on the theme “Art and communication to generate change” was held at the Casina Pio IV and moderated by the Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication (DPC), Paolo Ruffini.
The theme of Pope Francis’ Message for the World Day of Prayer 2024, for the Care of Creation is: “Hope and act with Creation”.
The World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation is celebrated every September 1 and marks the beginning of the Time of Creation, which concludes on October 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi.
The theme ” Hope and act with Creation” is inspired by St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans (Rom 8:19-25), in which the apostle acknowledges that “the whole creation groans and suffers” but reminds us that because “in hope we have been saved” we wait “steadfastly.”