It’s The season of Creation!

The 80th General Convention of the Episcopal Church recognized climate change as “an all-encompassing social crisis and moral emergency that impacts and interconnects every aspect of pastoral concern including health, poverty, employment, racism, social justice, and family life, and that can only be addressed by a Great Work involving every sector of society, including the Church.”

The Church must rise to the occasion and stand with our Creator and God’s Creation. Celebrating this annual Season of Creation is one small way for us to grow in our consciousness of serving the world which God has placed into our care. From September 1 through October 4, with the approval of our Bishop, we will amend our prayers and liturgies to reflect our connection to the natural world, and to recognize the ways in which we need to amend our lives.

May we all be inspired by this Season to see “just how inseparable the bond is between concern for nature, justice for the poor, commitment to society, and interior peace” (Pope Francis in Laudato Sí, paragraph 10.).