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The NCCA gathers together Churches and Christian communities which confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour according to the Scriptures. We commit to deepen our relationship with each other and to work together towards the fulfilment of common witness, proclamation and service, to the glory of the one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

1 September through to the feast of St. Francis on 4 October

Season of Creation is a time for Christians to come together in prayer and action for Creation.

Season of Creation 2025 theme:

Peace with Creation – Isaiah 32:14-18

The symbol for 2025 is  ‘The Garden of Peace’

The prophet Isaiah pictured the desolated Creation without peace because of the lack of justice and the broken relationship between God and humankind. This description of devastated cities and wastelands eloquently stresses the fact that human destructive behaviours have a negative impact on the Earth.

Creation will find peace when justice is restored.

To hope is to act, pray, change, and reconcile with Creation and the Creator in unity, metanoia (repentance), and solidarity.

Isaiah 32:14-18:

14 Because the palaces will be forsaken,
The bustling city will be deserted.
The forts and towers will become lairs forever,
A joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks—

15 Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high,
And the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
And the fruitful field is counted as a forest.

16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness,
And righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

17 The work of righteousness will be peace,
And the effect of righteousness,
quietness and assurance forever.

18 My people will dwell in a peaceful habitation,
In secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.

Resources

Season of Creation website 

SEASON OF CREATION 2025 PRAYER (Celebration Guide)

PEACE WITH CREATION
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.

Beloved Christ,
who spoke “Shalom” to frightened hearts,
stir us to compassionate action.
Inspire us to work for the end of conflict,
and for the full restoration of broken relationships—
with you, with the ecumenical community,
with the human family,
and with all Creation.

Prince of Peace,
through your wounds, teach us to stand in solidarity
with the woundedness of others,
of creation, and of the world.
Through your resurrection,
make us people of hope—
with a vision of swords turned into ploughshares
and tears transformed into joy.
May we come together as one family,
to labor for your peace—
a shalom where all your people
may dwell in safety,
and rest in quiet places.  Amen.

Church and Christian community resources

[please revisit this page as we add more resource links]

Common Grace

Season of Creation – introduction and resources

Laudato Si Movement

Season of Creation 2025

From the Vatican

World Day of Prayer for Creation (1 September)

‘Seeds of Peace and Hope’ 

Pope Leo XIV:

Message of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation [1st September 2025] (30 June 2024)

Pope Francis:

Encyclical Letter of the Holy Father Francis: LAUDATO SI’ – On care for our common home| 2015

SEASON OF CREATION BACKGROUND

1 September was proclaimed a Day of Prayer for Creation by the Orthodox in 1989 and repeated by Pope Francis in 2015.

The season takes us through to the feast of St. Francis on 4 October. Christians of all denominations and locations are invited to participate in an ecumenical Season of Creation.

“Everything is related, and we human beings are united as brothers and sisters on a wonderful pilgrimage, woven together by the love God has for each of his creatures and which also unites us in fond affection with brother sun, sister moon, brother river and mother earth” (Laudato Si’, 9).

Visit the Season of Creation website to see how we can celebrate creation.

Learn more on World Council of Churches website:  https://www.oikoumene.org/en/press-centre/events/season-of-creation