Let A  Worshiping God with creation Care for creation worship throughout the year Season of Creation resources Download freely and adapt for your worshiping context. Share your sermons, prayers, liturgies, ideas, and pictures. Send resources or comments to Nick Utphall: nick@theMCC.net or post them on our
 Facebook page Season of Creation The Season of Creation typically runs in September into early October, culminating with a Blessing of the Animals around the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi. Now is a wonderful time to begin planning your rich worship services. In a year when we are feeling less connected to each other in worship, what an amazing awareness of joining in the praise of being connected with all creation! Season of Creation Sundays this year would typically begin on Sunday, September 6 with Forest Sunday, followed by Land Sunday, Wilderness Sunday, and River Sunday. We have lots of resources for you at this page. Weekly Creation-Justice Commentary on the Revised Common Lectionary texts, Time after Pentecost in Year A August 16, 2020 (by Dennis Ormseth) August 23, 2020 (by Dennis Ormseth) August 30, 2020 (by Dennis Ormseth) September 6, 2020 (by Dennis Ormseth) September 13, 2020 (by Dennis Ormseth) Seasonal Planning While we address the pandemic, one of the opportunities for gathering for worship may be in an outdoor setting. For all the things that are confined by the virus, this may be an enhanced possibility for worshiping with creation! Visit our seasonal planning page for thoughts and tips on how to bring creation in or on how to go out! Festival of Homiletics The theme for this year's festival was "Preaching a New Earth: Climate and Creation." The 2020
Festival of Homiletics theme invited preachers to imagine their own role in
God’s creative work, to be courageous in preaching about God’s creative
activity, and to claim boldly our role in caring for God’s creation, when God’s
very creation is at stake" Find more and order downloads of all the sermons and presentations at their website: www.festivalofhomiletics.com. Worship that Reorients us as Creation-Centered Bridget Jones shares an essay on "Liturgy to Reconcile People and the Planet" and looks at our worship practices, reminding us that greening the congregation absolutely doesn't stop at the doors of the sanctuary, but can fill our whole worship practice. Earthkeepers Preaching The
Minnesota Episcopal Earthkeepers Circle has been helping to work on a
website similar to TextWeek.com but focused on creation-related
resources for preaching! Visit earthkeeperspreaching.net/. Similar to this website, they would also be happy to receive and share your sermons.  A Song of Inspiration If you're looking for some of the feeling of this website and what we mean by praising the triune God with creation, the song "Holy Now" by Minnesota singer-songwriter Peter Mayer may give you a feeling for it. Click here for a beautiful video version.  Book Recommendations With a Foreword by our own Dave Rhoads, The Nature of Things is a new volume with a collection of essays on rediscovering spirituality in creation. Visit our Books page for more description and a link to purchase. Norman Habel shared his 3rd volume of "Habel Hymns" especially written for celebrating as "Songs for the Eco-Reformation and Ongoing Earth-Care." Would you like background on "why" this emphasis in worship?
Four Stages to Comprehensive Care for Creation in All Worship Follow these comprehensive suggestions to make every worship service a opportunity to worship with creation and on behalf of creation. |
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