Season of Creation
14 September 2025 Readings Jeremiah 4.11-12, 22-28 ps 14 1 Timothy 1.1-2, 12-19a Luke 15.1-10 I was reminded, when I looked at the readings the lectionary gives us for this week, that the wider Church in Australia - the Orthodox, Catholic, Anglican and Uniting Churches - observe every September as the Season of Creation. This month, the reflection is on God’s beauty and goodness reflected in the natural world, and on the human vocation to love and care for all that God has made. And it’s in this context that the late Pope Francis observes, in his confronting and groundbreaking 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si - that everything in the human and natural worlds is connected. As Genesis informs us, human life is interwoven and inseparable from the web of creation, which God also blesses, and on which all life depends. And when we ignore that, then, as the Pope puts it in his blunt encyclical, ‘We are broken’. Pope Francis points to the multiple ecological crises affecting our modern world...