When taking action, members of CCA often use liturgies, prayers, declarations or litanies, that can be read or performed. You can find some of them below to use for your vigil or protest:
- A communal Prayer for Climate Grief (a beautifully designed handout – see below)
- I Dare – a prayer by Holly-Anna Petersen urging people into Christian climate activism
- A Prayer for Extinction Rebellion – by Rev Helen Burnett (links to Green Christian site)
- Climate crisis confession and lament – compiled by Rev Jon Swales of CCA Leeds download pdf or Word doc
- 26 Prayers for the Ecological and Climate Emergency – CCA member Rev Jon Swales has also crafted 26 beautiful and moving poems for this time of environmental crisis
- Creation Stations of the Cross
- Three poems for Extinction Rebellion – by Jeremy Williams
- A Creation Liturgy – From All Hallows Leeds
- A Liturgy for Praying in Solidarity with Activists
- The Joy in Enough Confession – a confession of our complicity in consumerism and climate change.
- Words and prayers for a Zoom prayer meeting – by Melanie Nazareth, with notes on how to run one here.
- Litany for the Earth – based on ‘Litany for the Earth’-Fran Pratt, & ‘Litany of Resistance’ – Jim Lone.