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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:

Living Water – Ezekiel 47:9-12

This year’s theme, “Living Water”, explores Ezekiel 47:9 and 12 as a powerful biblical vision of hope and ecological healing. Set amid exile and loss, the image of living water flowing from God’s sanctuary reveals divine healing that renews land, water, biodiversity, and human responsibility towards the whole creation.

The symbol depicts water flowing from the Temple of God – at first a tiny stream that grows deeper, and deeper and as it does so, it brings life to dead areas and restores fertility to damaged or barren ecosystems. Through living water comes healing; but in order to receive new life, we too must step into the water and also become part of God’s river of life, taking part in the healing of creation.

“Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large numbers of fish, because this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh; so where the river flows everything will live. […]
Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.” Ezekiel 47:9-12

Resources

Season of Creation website 

SEASON OF CREATION 2026 PRAYER (Celebration Guide pg. 18)

Living Water
Holy God, whose Spirit hovered over the waters at the beginning, we gather as part
of your community of all creation, thirsty for your grace. We give thanks for the gift
of water, the veins of our common home, that sustains the cedar and the whale, the
pasture and the city. We are grateful for the local waters that nourish our
homelands and our fellow creatures. We give thanks that in your well-watered
garden, every drop is a sacred testament to your love.   READ MORE

Church and Christian community resources

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Common Grace

Season of Creation – introduction and resources

Lutheran Church of Australia

Seasonal Resources – Season of Creation 2026

World Council of Churches

Season of Creation 2026: Living Waters – The World Council of Churches calls Christians worldwide to observe the Season of Creation from 1 September to 4 October 2026.

Laudato Si Movement

Season of Creation 2026 – articles

Ecumenical Patriarch

Patriarchal Message for Creation – Archbishop Bartholomew (tba)

From the Vatican

World Day of Prayer for Creation (1 September)

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