Tag: Creation
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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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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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Communion Forest
The Communion Forest was launched a year ago at the Lambeth Conference – an international gathering of Anglican bishops, which meets once a decade. Meeting at Lambeth Palace for a day focused on the environment, bishops pledged their support for the Communion Forest through a tree planting and service of commitment on the palace lawns. The bishops…
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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…
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Thanksgiving for all creatures great and small
The Biblical accounts of creation put human beings and all other living things into relationship with each other as created by God, though humans are given “dominion” over the other animals. We have not always exercised that dominion with proper respect and care for the animals, or with proper awareness of our interdependence with the…
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Environmental Degradation and Pollution Prayer
The advances of science and technology of the past 200 years have brought great progress to many people, but a cost. Western industrial economies now have environmental protection legislation with heavy penalties for polluters, but accumulated contaminants remain and toxic spills still occur. Many third-world economies still produce cheap goods with harmful byproducts that damage…
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Dismissal: Stewardship of Creation theme
This Dismissal could be used at the end of a eucharist or service of the Word with a special focus on care for creation. It uses both of the possible responses used in the APBA Second Order Holy Communion service. The sequence of “faith, hope and love” leads into the familiar “go in peace.” The…
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Confession: Stewardship of creation
Holy God, Creator and Lover of all that is,we confess to you that we have sinned.We have failed in our care for the land and its creatures, we have been greedy, destructive, and wastefulof the resources you entrusted to us.Polluted air and water,eroded soil and salty earth,birds and animals deprived of habitat,and neighbours left hungry…