Season of Creation
Welcome to the Season of Creation 2025
The Season of Creation runs from World Day of Prayer for Care of Creation on 1 September to the Feast of St Francis of Assisi on 4 October. It is a time dedicated each year to reflect on God’s gift of creation and our shared responsibility to care for our common home.
Visit the Season of Creation website
Peace with Creation
This year’s theme, Peace with Creation, is inspired by Isaiah 32:14–18.
It highlights the connection between peace, justice and our relationship with the natural world. The theme calls us to pray, undergo personal transformation and take meaningful steps to heal the earth and confront the envrionmental degradation, conflict and injustice it endures. This is a timely and meaningful theme in this Julilee Year of Hope.
Source: Season of Creation
Resources
You are invited to participate in the Seasons of Creation through prayer and reflection, sustainable living and advocacy.
Prayer and reflection
Read Pope Leo XIV’s message for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation 2025
Pray with Jesuit and Ignation Spirituality Australia (JISA) Season of Creation Contemplations. A time for you to pause and immerse your senses in the sacredness and interconnectedness of all God’s creation. There are five weekly contemplations to connect with a conference of stones, winds, waters, trees, and birds.
Pray the Ecological Examen Reconciling God, Creation and Humanity – an Ignation Eco-Examen virtual experience.
Sustainable living
Download a copy of a ‘Seasons of Creation ‘ calendar published by Mercy International Association.
Calculate your carbon footprint using an online calculator.
Engage locally with the City of Boroondara’s Sustainable living workshops and events. Learn more about Living for our Future program and upcoming workshops and webinar recordings. Sign up to receive workshop and event updates.
Taking action
Create a Laudato Si’ Action Plan – the Australian Catholic Bishops encourage all Catholics to participate in the Laudato Si’ Action Platform, a shared space where the Church develops a proactive response to address the ecological crisis. They also call on individuals and communities to create and carry out their own Laudato Si’ Action Plans.
Laudato Si'
In 2023, Pope Francis released Laudate Deum, a follow-up environmental document to the 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’.
Read Laudato Si’
Read Laudate Deum
A summary of Laudato Si’ has been compiled by the Laudato Si’ Movement. Read more…
Find out about the The Laudato Si’ Movement that was inspired by the publication of Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si’.
What is Climate Change?
Learn more about Climate change with the United Nations Climate Action. Read more…