Season of Creation 2024
We are approaching the Season of Creation: as Christians we are encouraged to pray and engage in community events in order to deepen our relationship with our God, our neighbour and the earth we share, being ever more attentive to the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor. The idea of celebrating September 1st as a day of prayer for creation began at the wish of the Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios in 1989, and was endorsed by Pope Francis in 2015 and ends with the, Feast of St. Francis of Assisi on October 4th.
Writing about the season in 2019 Pope Francis said, this is the season for letting our prayer be inspired anew,” a season “to reflect on our lifestyles,” and a season for undertaking prophetic actions … calling for courageous decisions … directing the planet towards life, not death.”
The theme this year is To Hope and Act with Creation. And, as Catholics, we are encouraged to organise prayer and practical initiatives to combat the environmental crisis facing our common home. This “time for creation” offers, in the words of Pope Francis, individual believers and communities a fitting opportunity to reaffirm their personal vocation to be stewards of creation.
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