Season of Creation (1 September 2026 - 4 October 2026)
Theme: Living Water
The Season of Creation is a time to renew our relationship with God and all creation through celebration, conversion, and commitment. This annual ecumenical season invites Christians to pray and act together for our common home.
During this “Season of Creation” we are called to immerse ourselves in the theme of “Living Waters.”
We are called to listen to the stories of those impacted by floods, storms and droughts.
The 2026 theme invites you and your community to engage deeply with those facing environmental and social challenges caused by the climate crisis. It encourages shared, immersive experiences with vulnerable and poor communities — the human face of this crisis.
Like St Francis of Assisi, embracing the leper, encountering, "touching" their wounds can renew our hearts and reshape our story.
Prayer for Living Water
Creator 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.
Yet, we confess that we have treated this gift as a mere commodity.
We have choked the seas with our waste and watched the warming tides rise in judgment.
We lament the cracked earth of the drought-stricken and the salty tears of the climate refugee.
Melt our frozen hearts, O God, and let the waters of repentance flow.
God of all Life, you promised that wherever the river flows, everything shall live.
Stir in us a calling to care for the waters — to protect the watershed, defend the rights of water and honour the dignity of the thirsty.
May your Word be a spring within us, gushing forth for the healing of the nations.
May God our Creator who brought water from the rock sustain us in the desert.
May God of Life who is Living Water refresh us for the work of restoration.
And may the Holy Spirit carry us on currents of grace until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Amen.
Season of Creation Celebration Guide 2026.
Prayer for the school holidays
Let us pray for everyone who is eagerly looking forward to holidays.
Grant that a period of relaxation may provide a return to the core of our being,
to peace and quiet, to attention to the essentials, to the joy and comfort of old and new encounters.
Stay with us when we take a holiday, at home or elsewhere.
Bring peace to our hectic hearts and open our minds to enriching encounters.
Help us to gain oxygen for the work that is still to come and let us get deeper to the core of life,
so that our soul finds balance.
Loving God,
Let the awareness grow in us that all people – near and far – are our brothers and sisters.
Help us to grow every day as brother or sister of the people who cross our path and to show solidarity with them, comfort them and help them.
There are so many people in the world, with so many needs.
Following the example of Jesus, let us be open to encounter, convinced that involvement between people makes everything possible.
The most beautiful things in life are free.
We have received a lot: from you, from our family, from all the people
who made us who we have become.
Let our hearts overflow with gratitude and help us to find rest and peace this holiday time.
Amen
Source: Thomas - Godsdienstonderwijs.be, Leuven Belgium