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Season of Creation
Saturday 16th August 2025
September 1st marks the beginning of the Season of Creation, a period of reflection and prayer for the environment. It ends on 4th October, the Feast of St Francis of Assisi, the patron Saint of ecology beloved of many Christian denominations. It’s an opportunity to give thanks for God’s gift of creation and to renew our commitment to caring for our planet. Throughout the month-long celebration, the world’s 2.2 billion Christians come together to care for our common home.
As the Season of Creation approaches, it feels like a goodtime to reflect on the early Celtic saints in whose footsteps our journeys often walk, for they did not merely live alongside creation; they lived within it, as part of it, reverently aware of the Creator’s hand in every bird’s flight, every spring’s flow, and every sunrise.
In an age increasingly distant from nature, the lives of the early Celtic saints like St. David, St. Patrick, St. Bridget and St. Aidan shine like starlight through the mists of history - simple, luminous, and deeply attuned to the rhythms of the created world.
For them, Creation was not a resource to be managed or mastered. It was a living gospel that whispered the truths of God through its beauty and wildness. They often chose to live in remote, rugged landscapes - not to escape the world, but to encounter God more clearly within it. Holy ground could be found on windswept moors, in the hush of ancient forests, or along a storm-lashed shoreline. Thin places we call them; those rare spaces where heaven seems to brush against the earth.
In our modern age of environmental degradation and technological detachment, the witness of the Celtic saints is more relevant than ever. They call us back, not to romanticise the past, but to recover a way of seeing the world as sacred. They remind us that to honour the Creator is to honour Creation, and to live in harmony with the earth is not a political act but a profoundly spiritual one.
May their example inspire us to rediscover the sacredness of the world around us and to walk - like them - with wonder, wisdom and reverence through the peace of God’s good Creation.