Creation Time Resources Launched

Tuesday July 25 2017

Eco-Congregation Scotland has launched worship material for the four Sundays in September designated as ‘Creation Time’.

The material comes from an ecumenical writing group, with contributors from the Church of Scotland, the Roman Catholic Church, The Salvation Army and Scottish Episcopal Church. It follows the theme ‘Journeying with God’, linking to the UN international year of sustainable tourism for development. It explores God’s invitation to join us in the journey of faith leading us into care for all creation.

Creation Time originated in 1989 when the Ecumenical Patriarch suggested that September 1, the first day of the Orthodox Church’s year, should be observed as a day ‘of protection of the natural environment’.

Ten years later, the European Christian Environmental Network widened this proposal, urging churches to adopt a Time for Creation stretching from September 1 to the feast of St Francis on October 4. This was endorsed by the 3rd European Ecumenical Assembly in Sibiu, Romania in 2007, which recommended that the period ‘be dedicated to prayer for the protection of Creation and the promotion of sustainable lifestyles that reverse our contribution to climate change’.

Since 2008 Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI) has compiled a programme of resources to encourage and assist churches to observe Creation Time and will do so again this year. These include suggestions on a variety of ways in which churches, groups and individuals could choose to focus on a creation theme at this particular time of the year.

The Scottish Creation Time resources for 2017, as well as previous years and international resources, are available for download from the Eco-Congregation Scotland website.

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