Living Faithfully in the Time of Creation

For celebrating Creationtide mindfully in an age of environmental emergency, a resource from the Iona Community’s Common Concern Network on the Environment.

Reflections, essays, hymns, songs and liturgical resources from more than twenty writers around the world, covering the twelve weeks from September, through the United Nations COP conference … and future years.

Creator God, we give thanks
that we have heard the Spirit of God
in the freshening leaves
and the rush of water.
So we pray for the creation
which nourishes and sustains all that lives.
Renew in us the sense of its value
that we may not squander its riches,
or so bend it to our will
that we find we have destroyed it.

Kathy Galloway

Contents include:

Lectionary Reflections

• 1 Introduction
• 11 Readings
• 12 Reflections
• 9 Questions
• 11 Actions
• 9 Prayers
• 1 Song

Essays

• 1 Introduction
• 12 Essays

God's Good earth: A service of Worship in Preparation for the COP 26 Climate Change conference

• 1 Opening Responses
• 3 Prayer
• 3 Biblical insights
• 1 Response
• 1 Affirmation
• 1 Dismissal
• 1 Readers Theatre

Liturgical Resources

• 1 Gathering Responses
• 2 Call to Worship
• 2 Prayers
• 2 Confession/repentance/absolution
• 3 Meditations
• 1 Lamentation and Prayer
• 4 Litanies of Thanksgiving
• 2 Prayers of Incession and Concern
• 1 Communion
• 1 Prayer of self-offering/commitment
• 4 Prayers to go/blessings/benedictions

Hymns and Songs

• 1 Introduction
• 12 Songs
• 12 Sources of hymns and songs