Season of Creation Begins

Within our current liturgical season of Ordinary Time, we will again be observing the Season of Creation for five Sundays, beginning September 3rd. This celebration invites us to consider the mysteries and wonders of creation with God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit. The Season of Creation follows the lead of the psalmists who exhort us to celebrate together with creation-with the forest, the rivers, and the fields who praise the Creator in their own way. We celebrate Earth, the garden planet God has chosen as God’s sanctuary and as our home. We celebrate with the creatures God has created as our kin on this blue green planet. As we celebrate, we are conscious of the crisis that creation faces because of human greed, exploitation, and neglect. As we celebrate, we empathize with those parts of creation-human and non-human-that are groaning because of human crimes against creation. And, especially, we celebrate the Christ, whose death brings forgiveness for our sins against creation and whose risen presence is the cosmic power at work in reconciling and restoring creation.

Join us as we give thanks to God for this wondrous world and live into our call as stewards of creation.