The Season of Creation is the period within our liturgical calendar when we focus especially on our responsibility to care for God’s creation. As we reflect on the environmental and climate crises, we draw on our faith in a creator God, who made a good world and made humans in God’s image. The Season of Creation is both an opportunity to focus our worship on these truths, and recommit to responding practically, through hope-filled action.
The season runs from the first Sunday of September for four weeks, concluding with Thanksgiving for Harvest on the fifth Sunday.
The theme for the ecumenical resources for this year’s Season of Creation is ‘to hope and act with creation’. This call is taken from Romans 8: 19-25 where Paul pictures the earth as a mother, groaning in childbirth.
Creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God
In hope, creation will be set free.
(Romans 9: 19-21)
There are many online resources available to guide churches through the season. These include the SEC liturgies which can be found here.
The Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway have also produced resources for groups to use, which can be downloaded below.
There are many more ecumenical resources that have been collated by Eco-congregation Scotland. You can browse these here.
Please do share your Season of Creation stories with Bethany.
Collect for the Season of Creation:
God Most High, maker of heaven and earth,
you created humankind in your own image
and entrusted the whole world to human care:
give us grace to serve you faithfully,
that we might be trustworthy stewards of your creation,
through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Bethany Nelson, Empowerment Coordinator
