Oudtshoorn, 28 August 2024: The Season of Creation is an ecumenical monthlong moment of prayerful reflection and celebration. It calls us to renew our relationship with the Creator and all creation through communal prayer and action. It spans five weeks between the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation (September 1) and the Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi (October 4). T
his “time for creation” offers, in the words Pope Francis, individual believers and communities a fitting opportunity to reaffirm their personal vocation to be stewards of creation, to thank God for the wonderful handiwork which he has entrusted to our care, and to implore his help for the protection of creation as well as his pardon for the sins committed against the world in which we live (Letter for the Establishment of the “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, 1 September 2015).
Below are some ways to live out the three-dimensional objectives for the Season of Creation, both as individuals and as a community.
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