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Season of Creation, Spring 2025
Peace with Creation

Every year from September 1st, the Christian family unites for this worldwide celebration of prayer and action to protect our common home.
It is a special season where we celebrate God as Creator and acknowledge Creation as the divine continuing act that summons us as collaborators to love and care for the gift of all that is created. As followers of Christ from around the globe, we share a common call to care for Creation. We are co-creatures and part of all that God has made. Our well-being is interwoven with the well-being of the Earth. You may learn more here: https://seasonofcreation.org/

And so we pray...
Creator of all,
we praise you for the gift of life and for the faith that unites us in care for our common home.
We confess how estranged we have become - from one another, from your Creation, and from our truest selves.
We acknowledge that our greed and destructive impulses have fractured our relationships with you, with others, and with the Earth.
Fertile fields have become barren, forests lie desolate, oceans and rivers are polluted.
Thriving communities have become places of suffering, and the earth cries out.
May we come together as one family, to labour for your peace - a shalom where all your people may dwell in safety, and rest in quiet places.
Amen.