Each year from September 1 to October 4, the Christian family unites for this worldwide celebration of prayer and action to protect our common home. It is a special season where we celebrate God as Creator and acknowledge Creation as a divine continuing act that summons us as collaborators to love and care for the gift of all that is created. We are co-creatures and part of all that God has made. Our well-being is interwoven with the well-being of the Earth. We rejoice in this opportunity to safeguard our common home and all beings who share it.

This year’s theme is “Peace with Creation”, inspired by Isaiah 32: 14-18: “For the palace will be forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become the dens forever, the joy of wild asses, a pasture for flocks. Until a spirit from on high is poured out on us, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest. Then justice will dwell in the wilderness and righteousness abide in the fruitful field. The effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness, and trust forever. My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.” (NRVUE)

“As sacred Scripture teaches, the earth is the Lord’s and all of us dwell in it as ‘aliens and tenants’ (Leviticus 25: 23) .If we really wish to prepare a path to peace in our world, let us commit ourselves to remedying the remote causes of injustice, settling unjust an unplayable debts, and feeding the hungry.” His Holiness, Pope Francis

Enclosed are resources to review, as well as Internet sites to assist with your understanding of this season.

Rev’d Peter Balabanski.

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https://www.ecocongregationscotland.org/creation-2025/

https://www.greenanglicans.org/season-of-creation-resources-2025/

https://seasonofcreation.org/resources/