Trinity United Reformed Church Wimbledon
Season of Creation
The Season of Creation, running annually between 1 September and 4 October, is that time of the year when 2.2 billion Christians are invited to pray and care for creation.
1 September was proclaimed as a day of prayer for creation (World Day of Prayer for Creation, or Creation Day) by Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios I for the Orthodox church in 1989, and was embraced by the other major Christian European churches in 2001 and by Pope Francis for the Roman Catholic Church in 2015.
And it has happened that in recent years many Christian churches have started celebrating the “Season of Creation” (also known as Creation Time) between that date and 4 October, which is the Feast of St Francis of Assisi (author of the Canticle of the Creatures in the 13th century) that some Western traditions observe.
At Trinity we are celebrating Creation Time from the beginning of September until our Harvest Thanksgiving.
