The Season of Creation is a time to renew our relationship with our Creator and all creation through celebration, conversion, and commitment together. During the Season of Creation, we join our sisters and brothers in the ecumenical family in prayer and action for our common home.
Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios I proclaimed 1 September as a day of prayer for creation for the Orthodox in 1989. In fact, the Orthodox church year starts on that day with a commemoration of how God created the world.
The World Council of Churches was instrumental in making the special time a season, extending the celebration from 1 September until 4 October.
Following the leadership of Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios I and the WCC, Christians worldwide have embraced the season as part of their annual calendar. Pope Francis established the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation in the Roman Catholic Church in 2015, and in 2019 started celebrating the Season of Creation as well.
In recent years, statements from religious leaders around the world have also encouraged the faithful to take time to care for creation during the month-long celebration.
The season starts 1 September, the Day of Prayer for Creation, and ends 4 October, the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of ecology beloved by many Christian denominations.
Throughout the month-long celebration, the world’s 2.2 billion Christians come together to care for our common home.
- from https://seasonofcreation.org/about/
In 2019 The Anglican Church of Canada adopted the Season of Creation, beginning September 1st and continuing through to October 4, the Feast of St. Francis, “as an annual season of prayer, education and action to protect the gift of God’s creation”. The designation of September 1st as a liturgical feast is intended to reinforce and further develop the Season of Creation, not replace it.
from https://gs2025.anglican.ca/resolutions/a122/
This year’s theme is “Peace With Creation.”
The biblical text is Isaiah 32:14-18, in which the prophet Isaiah pictured the desolated creation without peace because of the lack of justice and the broken relationship between God and humankind. This description of devastated cities and wastelands eloquently stresses the fact that human destructive behaviours have a negative impact on the Earth.
The symbol for Season of Creation 2025 is the Garden of Peace, characterized by a dove carrying an olive branch bringing life to the Garden of Peace.
In the biblical story of the flood, the dove plays the role of the blessed messenger. The dove sent out by Noah returns to the ark with a fresh olive branch in its beak, signalling that the flood is receding.
- from https://www.oikoumene.org/events/season-of-creation-2025
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