What are you doing in your parish for the Season of Creation this year? A Canadian collection

All Saints Cathedral, Halifax NS

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Anglican activist and ecological animator extraordinaire, The Rev. Marian Lucas Jeffries (Team Leader of the Environment Network of the Diocese of Nova Scotia/Prince Edward Island) sent a note to her clergy colleagues asking: “What are you doing this year in your parish for the Season of Creation / Feast Day of Creation? The Anglican Communion wants to know.” The responses she received are inspiring:

All Saints Cathedral, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Oh my dear, we are doing It up. Kicked it off with the Chebucto Regional Picnic in Victoria Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia last week. I preached last Sunday about what taking up your cross might mean from an environmental standpoint – losing your lifestyle for the sake of the planet. Music Director, Paul Halley is using lots of liturgy from the Season for Creation resources.

It all leads up to the Creation Extravaganza on October 3, which will begin with Blessing of Pets in Victoria Park (Lancers are coming!), continue with various activities in and around the Cathedral (embodied prayer practices, planting pollinator seeds, kids activities, lunch… Later in the afternoon, Creation Songs and Stories in the Cathedral at 2.

Parish of Port Dufferin (Five points)

For the Season of Creation, the Parish of Port Dufferin is involved in four activities. On Saturday, September 19th, we are holding the “Bike with Mike” fundraising bike ride from St. Peter’s  Roman Catholic Church in Sheet Harbour to St. James Anglican Church in Port Dufferin via the Sheet Harbour Passage and Beaver Harbour route, a distance of 25 kilometres. This will be followed by a barbecue and a concert at St. James. The proceeds go to the Rainbow Food Bank and helps those in our communities that are experiencing food shortages in their daily lives.

On Wednesday, September 23rd, on our fourth Sunday in Wednesday Communion service at Harbourview Lodge, Ann and I will lead the Communion service and members from our Parish will assist in the service with the Elders. Part of the service will focus on showing pictures to the Harbourview residents of the food insufficiency fundraiser. The Elders will be able to recognize people from their home communities. The liturgy for the Communion service will be drawn from the SOC Celebration Guide 2026 “Living Water: Immersion in Living Water, Ezekiel 47:9,12.”

On October 3rd, the Eastern Shore Regional Council will be holding their meeting at St. Peter’s Anglican Church Hall in Murphy Cove and each of the Parishes on the Eastern Shore will be creating a booth for the meeting of what is happening in their communities regarding the Season of Creation theme. The Parish of Port Dufferin will have a booth that presents the work of the citizen scientists and the evolving Eastern Shore Community Ocean Monitoring initiative.

Finally, the Parish of Port Dufferin is working on having an outdoor service during the Season of Creation that will end on Sunday, October 4th at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in Watt Section on the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi.

Ann and I discussed these plans at our church service this morning at St. James in Port Dufferin, and we agreed that all of these events will be evolving throughout the Season of Creation as the Holy Spirit moves all those organizing the events.

Life gets in the way, in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia – Port Hawkesbury

Honestly, I have not had time to think about it.  I do plan to have a Blessing of the Animals in October.

I love the theme of Living Water. We have a Baptist congregation renting Holy Trinity here in Port Hawkesbury. It would be wonderful to celebrate the Ecumenical service together.  

I normally have these resources months in advance, this year time has gotten away with all the sickness, death, and funerals.  

Cape Breton is in a state of emergency after a catastrophic storm. Roads are washed out, people cut off, a real mess.  We are safe here in Port Hawkesbury but not so in many parts of the Island.  The living water has wreaked havoc here and clean up and healing is the focus for the next while here.

I invite the Communion to hold us in prayer.

The Anglican Parish of French Village works with local animal hospital

Parish of New London, Prince Edward Island

Last Sunday, because it was the 5th Sunday of the month our four parish churches were worshipping together, so we linked together glorifying God with Creation Sunday and introducing the Season of Creation using a Holy Eucharist liturgy I adapted from the Creation Sunday materials from Anglican Church of Canada and the 2026 Season of Creation Materials.

We created a visual display with a wooden cross and blue shades of cloth along with sand, seashells and rocks to give an expression of living waters, with cloth flowing from the cross into our baptismal font. At one point we prayed a prayer together while pouring water down the cloth into the font. Was quite effective. Starting tomorrow and for the following four weeks, I have created two Season of Creation liturgies, in booklet form  with  this year’s Season of Creation logo, information and so on. I adapted this year’s Season of Creation Opening Service — one for Morning Prayer and one for Holy Eucharist, as we have both Services in the Parish each week. I adopted and adapted what I understood I could and credited accordingly. 

The hymns each Sunday will embrace the Season of Creation and Living Water theme, as will my sermons; I will use the RSL readings, and what they, or at least the Gospel reading says related to the season. This is the 3rd year I’ve done this . . . And most everyone seems to participate. I have appreciated the prepared material and the invitation to adapt! 

All of the above are happening in one diocese within the Anglican Church of Canada. WOW.

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In other places where they pray and sing, and do almost any thing

At St. George’s Fort Langley in the Diocese of New Westminster, BC Canada  we started the Season of Creation by celebrating the Feast of the Creator using materials newly authorized for trial use in the Anglican Church of Canada. Parishioners brought “living water” from places special to them and the sermon considered finding God in more than the human world.

Our diocesan communications person has put together a series of short videos inviting people into the season and Salal + Cedar Watershed Discipleship Group and the diocesan Creation Care and Climate Emergency team are preparing workshops to help parishes identify and work towards climate response goals that fit their values and capacity.

Leader, Rev. Laurel Dykstra introduces the season here.

Christ Church, Bells Corners, (CCBC) Diocese of Ottawa is celebrating the Season of Creation and the Feast of the Creator in a variety ways liturgically.

On September 1st we will celebrate the feast at our Forest Church at 6pm. We will invite other churches in our diocese to participate. We will post on Facebook ad inviting others in the Ottawa area to come. We were just interviewed by our local CBC news team and it is possible that they will be filming the service on September 1st.

We will use various facets of the new Canadian liturgical resource for The Feast of the Creator throughout the season, particularly on Thanksgiving Sunday, but many elements throughout the season as well.

St. Anselm, at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver

For the Feast of Creation we introduced the different patterns of confession and the themes. Then over the next few weeks I am preaching on lamentation, awe, and hope. (On St Francis Day we will weave the themes together). We have put a fountain in the prayer station to honour the theme of living waters.

This coming Sunday the community is invited to bring a rock from a place that makes them feel “lament” and the kids are going to make a bigger water fountain of that.

The following week the community will be invited to bring water from a place where they feel “awe.” We will add that water to our fountain of lament – and talk about how our feelings can all be true.

An ecumenical ecojustice pilgrimage in the Anglican Diocese of Kootenay in the BC interior

Fourteen pilgrims will walk on the west side of Kootenay Lake in the from Sept 14-18. They will walk with Anglicans at Kaslo, Orthodox Christians at Birchdale, and with Quaker community members at Argenta.

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In the sermon this morning I will be laying the underpinning that is needed for humanity to get with it, a recognition of the Creator and the place of Wisdom and Christ in the Word. Lip service is not going to do anything to help Nature to be restored or even survive. I need to raise loud shout for the future home of my Great Grandkids.

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