This notice was sent by email to clergy, vestry members, and parish administrators on Monday, June 23, 2025.
Clergy and vestry leaders,
The Diocese of Southern Ohio is committed to our call to care for God’s creation. To that end, I write to encourage your engagement in the upcoming Season of Creation – September 1-October 4, 2025. As part of this annual observance, I have authorized the use of special liturgies prepared for the Season of Creation.
From The Episcopal Church website:
“The Season of Creation is celebrated around the world as a time for renewing, repairing, and restoring our relationship to God, one another, and all of creation. The Episcopal Church joins this international effort for prayer and action for climate justice and an end to environmental racism and ecological destruction. The 2025 theme is Peace with Creation. In celebrating the Season, we are invited to consider anew our ecological, economic, and political ways of living.”
Beyond liturgical engagement, the Season of Creation is an opportunity to engage and reinvest in creation care-focused ministry or special events, perhaps in collaboration with other congregations and community organizations.
- Learn more about the Season of Creation on The Episcopal Church website and on the international Season of Creation website.
- Access the authorized prayers and liturgies here.
One opportunity to engage the Season of Creation will take place at our own Procter Center from September 18-20. The Episcopal Creation Care Gathering, Soil to Soul: Conversation and Conversion, Transforming Hearts, Changing Culture, gathers those steeped in prayer, theology, the wild outdoors, agriculture, and the front lines of pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, and land use. This gathering creates space for conversation, learning, and practice, exploring the deep relationships that bind together spirituality, justice, ecology, discipleship, and evangelism. Please share this opportunity with your congregations. Learn more and register here.
And finally, I commend to you the work of our Commission on Creation Care and Environmental Justice, who this year extended an invitation to all faith communities of the diocese to engage in learning and workshops connected to our care of creation, an initiative titled Catechism of Place. Learn more here.
If your community chooses to engage in special activities or worship for the Season of Creation, please notify and share photos with Canon Katie Forsyth so that we might share your good news!
In Christ,
The Rt. Rev. Kristin Uffelman White
Bishop
Diocese of Southern Ohio
