Season of Creation 2024
Our lives can become a song of love for God, for humanity, with and for creation, and find their fullness in holiness.Pope Francis, 2024, para. 9 [1] The Season of Creation opens with a World Day of Prayer on 1 September and concludes on the feast of St Francis of Assisi on 4 October. This […]
Hope has two beautiful daughters
Hope has two beautiful daughters, Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.Attributed to St Augustine The Wellington Archdiocese Ecology, Justice and Peace Commission’s Integral Ecology Committee initiated two workshops in early August. The workshops were to offer and lead people to […]
Window on Creation
“Living in harmony with nature and with God gives us full happiness and purpose,” thus said Father Julian Tenison Woods in 1887. For Fr Julian, fullness of life meant the integration of science and religion. He sensed that the future of Earth depends on the realisation that all creation is in relationship, and that we […]
Sprouting Change – planting across boundaries
You cannot get through a single day without having an impact of the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.Jane Goodall It was a great community day at the recent launch of Sprouting Change – Planting Across Boundaries at Holy […]
Listen to the Voice of Creation
I have heard their cry… I know their sufferings… Come, now! I will send you… I will be with you. Ezekiel 3:1-12 The most overused word in the journalists’ lexicon these days is ‘unprecedented’. We hear of ‘unprecedented floods’, ‘unprecedented bushfires’, an ‘unprecedented drought’ – all the ‘unprecedented’ impact of climate change on women, men, […]
Earth Hour 2022
Recently, I viewed the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, the great space science observatory now orbiting the sun about 1 million miles from the earth. This large telescope, about the size of a tennis court, continues the work of the Hubble Telescope, which for 25 years explored the farthest depths of the Universe. […]
Season of Creation: The World is Our Household, Let’s Honour It
The Season of Creation is a month-long prayerful observance, from 1 September to 4 October, that calls the planet’s 2.2 billion Christians to pray and care for God’s creation. It is a time to reflect on our relationship with the environment — not just “distant” nature, but crucially, the place where we live — and […]