Season of Creation [Creation Time/Creationtide] is our participation in a global, ecumenical project building care for Creation and the celebration of God, the Trinity, as Creator, into the regular Christian calendar. From the first Sunday in September to the Sunday closest to St Francis' Day on 4th October. We provide stimulating material to support worship, and link to creative thematic initiatives. Note Stilling videos: INTRODUCTION AT BOTTOM OF PAGE
Lectionary Notes, Prayers and video reflections for all five weeks
First draft [or later] of lectionary notes now available for download and use. Contact if any issues or comments.
Full-length videos [from later July/early August] fill a sermon slot or provide a starting point for study groups or individual devotion. Short versions will also fill a gap in worship.
Use these during the Season or at any time of year.
WEEK 1 : 7th September
WEEK 2: 14th September
WK 2 :NOTES and prayers 3rd DRAFT
WEEK 3: 21st September
https://vimeo.com/1085642491
WEEK 4: 28th September
WEEK 5 5th October
GUIDANCE ON HYMNS& songs in Season of Creation/ Creation Time
Trinity College Songs for Sunday Website -weekly links in the notes above
Stilling Video :catalogue of short refletive video
Location video readings for the five weeks and other video
Thematic Prayers, liturgy poetry, words & pictures.
Creation Liturgy [with long and short versions] 2025 Draft
The Absence of Christian Theology - extract from lectures by Very Rev Stephen Holmes.
St Cuthbert's Procession: [poem] a vision of a life-inclusive church, by Barbara Usher.
Emma Major - poet and artist: Words & Pictures for the Season
Green Faith with Teeth - video: 3 mins: thoughts on sharing our 'treasures' in an interfaith context
Prayer: Going forth, video for LS Movt. [Franciscan tradition]
MEME COLLECTION -postable Bible/ thoughtful quotes
Global Season of Creation links
Garden of Peace: the global theme
Fairtrade Fortnight [September]
Stations of Creation ['Via Crearionis']
Creation and the Death of Jesus - An African view
World Council of Churches on Season of Creation.
Laudato Si Action Platform: suggested resources to encourage action, from the Catholic Church
ARCHIVE: Season 24,23,22, Lent, Advent.
Advent 2024 Landscape in progress
Lent 2025 Fruitful Heritage
The Season of Creation/CreationTime/Creationtide is blossoming
The globally shared context of urgent and accelerating threat from the Crisis of Nature and Climate - think of the drought and extensive fires in Scotland this spring - is prompting churches around the world to adopt -according to their local and particular church customs - a ‘season’ of prayerful and active engagement with our relationship with the Earth and fellow creatures.
Born of ecumenism 36 years ago, following an initiative from the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch, the Season, and a special celebration at its opening, development now involves 14 of 15 global church communions as well as aid agencies and the WCC. Introducing the 2025 theme, 'Peace WITH Creation, the steering committee for 2025 writes:
Peace is not just the absence of war but the restoration of broken relationships—with God, among humans, and with Creation. Humanity wages war on Creation through extractive production, overconsumption, and biodiversity loss. Corporate greed and consumerism drive unsustainable practices, but individuals are also complicit.
Conferences held in 2024 and 2025 in St Francis’ hometown of Assisi this year, considered ways of embedding prayer with Creation into the regular practice of churches. A celebration of God as Creator, built on a deep relationship with the Earth and fellow creatures .
Having attended the conferences EcoChaplain Rev David Coleman, of EcoCongregation Scotland, who curates these resources for Scotland, hopes you will be deeply encouraged that mainstream prayer and mission of the churches is increasingly turning out to be ‘green’. We also eagerly encourage your local church to reach out to work with others during the Season.
This runs from 1st September, [ Orthodox ‘anniversary of God’s Creation of the World’ ] to the Feast of St Francis, whose emphasis on partnership with, rather than exploitation of our kin in Creation, has given renewed energy and authority to mainstream concern that Christianity should integrally involve care and prayer for and with a living Creation full of fellow stakeholders in God’s Rainbow Covenant between God and the Earth [cf Gen 9].
Just as Jesus refused the temptation to leap off the Temple pinnacle, when assured ‘God will save you’, there is no cause in faith for complacency. but rather for attention to the ‘signs’ in the skies and soil; [cf Matt 16:3]; for learning from the birds, the trees, and the despised wisdom of indigenous peoples.[cf Matt 6:26, Luke 21:29, Job 12:1-10]
