The Season of Creation

Sundays, Oct. 5 - Nov. 23, 2025
The Season of Creation begins Sunday, October 5th, 2025 with a celebration of Indigenous voices and the importance of kinship and reciprocity. Creation Season is a recognition that God’s incarnation is found not just in humanity, but in all of the created order. It celebrates God’s presence with us, in the face of the stranger and in the beauty of a flower. It is also a cry of hope and a living prayer that all of humanity will recognize the sacredness of creation and the deep interconnectedness of everything in the cosmos.

 It is a religious statement that 'love of neighbor' extends to the entire cosmos.

The Eucharistic Prayer, by The Rev. Steve Keplinger
is free and encouraged to be used in all churches:

We do praise you, our intimate God, the one who is with us, and with all of creation, the source of this magical, mystical, sensual, beautiful, earth. From microbes to whales you have created all of us. We are privileged to be a strand in all of your creation, including this strange and wonderful home, our earth, the open sky above, the dazzling array of stars and planets, and the unfathomable galaxies beyond us. You have blessed us with a world of infinite variety and beauty, a land of mountains and meadows, canyons and valleys, deserts and jungles. Over and through this land you have provided oceans teeming with life, streams and rivers, crystal clear lakes, and cascading waterfalls. We share this land with all of you creatures, from mosquito to mountain lion, from seal to scorpion. You have formed all of this, this land of such intense wildness and beauty.

Therefore, we praise you, O Sacred One, joining our voices with the cry of your animals, the rocks, the stars, the Moon, the Sun, and all the universe as we shout with joy!