Category: Liturgical
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Prayers for our earth
You are warmly invited to join ARRCC WA’s Zoom Prayers and Meditations for Our Earth and UNFCCC COP 28 UAE, Nov-Dec 2023. This ARRCC WA / the Brahma Kumaris Australia initiative follows the Interfaith Liaison Committee to The UNFCCC format. Our prayer and meditation around the world has helped the previous COPs. Our invitation is…
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Prayer for Creation
Holy One, As dawn breaks, I do not lift my eyes to the heavens but to the ground under my feet; for you are in all. The land is made through your touch of wisdom; the early morning dew like crowns upon the grass. The trees sway in the wind, like an eternal dance of…
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Forest Sunday
Forest Sunday is the first Sunday in September of Year A ‘Trees and Cities: the ancient and modern challenge’ SERMON for St Pauls Beaconsfield, September 3rd, 2023 I see the bad moon a-risin’I see trouble on the wayI see earthquakes and lightnin’I see bad times today Don’t go around tonightWell it’s bound to take your…
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Anglican Board of Mission
ABM encourages all our supporters to engage with the Season of Creation. Around the world, Anglicans, and members of many other churches, will focus on care of the created order from 1 September until 4 October. Their website has excellent resources. Their resources have been created around the world to inspire services and prayers for…
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Outback Sunday
Outback Sunday is the third Sunday in September of Year A. I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God, for the creation was subjected to futility,…
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Rain
O God, the earth is thirsty for rainand we wait for youto refresh the land and all its creatures,the rivers and lakes, the crops and gardens. Send abundant rain, we pray,and teach us to be better stewardsof all the blessings you provide,through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. © The Anglican Church of AustraliaThis text may…
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Salinity
Many areas of Australia are devastated by rising water tables bringing long-buried salt with them. In the past, water tables were kept low by tree and scrub cover. After land clearance for cropping or livestock, the water table rises. Salt poisons the land not only for agriculture but also for most native vegetation. Salinity in…
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Solar Energy
This text could be used at the dedication of a solar energy producer – solar hot water, solar desalinator, solar electricity PV panels, etc. Creator God,we thank you for these solar panels,for the people who designed and installed them,for the power they provideand for the household they serve.Bless us with vision and energy for change…
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Thanksgiving for Wilderness
Creator God, we thank you that you show your face to us in wilderness and desert places. We praise you for the deep places of the sea, and for coastlines smashed by surfand caressed by gentle waves. We praise you for the sun-baked, wind-swept lands,and for rocks and mountains older than human memory. We praise…
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Stewardship of Creation
Much environmental theology explores the dynamics of human beings’ relationship with the world around us through the two creation stories in Genesis 1 and 2. The first includes the commandment to human beings to “be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion…”(Gen 1.28). The second has God place the…