“To Hope and Act with Creation”.

Welcome to this year’s Season of Creation.

Each year, from 1 September to 4 October, the Christian family unites in this global celebration of prayer and action to respond together to the cry of Creation: the ecumenical family around the world comes together to listen and care for our common home, God’s Oikos.

It is a special season where we celebrate God as Creator and acknowledge Creation as the ongoing divine act that calls us as co-workers to love and care for the gift of all creation. As followers of Christ from around the world, we share a common call to care for Creation. 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. Amid the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution, many are beginning to despair and suffer eco-anxiety. As people of faith, we are called to lift up the hope that inspires our faith, the hope of resurrection. This is not a hope without action, but a hope embodied in concrete actions of prayer and preaching, service and solidarity.

This season, we are also joining our Christian voices through a joint advocacy initiative in support of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty that calls for a halt to new fossil fuel projects.

Join this common effort of the Christian family through the three actions proposed for this season of creation:

            On September 1, the Feast of Creation, for which we offer a prayer that you can use in both religious and lay communities.

            On September 21, we will have a day of action for advocacy: It will be a day of action to support the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FFNPT). The 79th Session of the UN General Assembly will take place from 10-24 September and it is in this context that Christians, as a global family, will raise our voices and show how faith communities can be powerful agents of justice and hope around the world.

            On October 4, we will celebrate St Francis of Assisi: this day is his feast day and the last day of the Season of Creation. People of faith from all over the world will gather in an online prayer service prepared by the Ecumenical Youth Committee of the Season of Creation to celebrate together our month-long journey.