Season of Creation events

The theme of this year’s Season of Creation, which runs from 1 September to the Feast of St Francis of Assisi on 4 October, is ‘to hope and act with creation’.

The season celebrates the joy of creation, and churches are encouraged to organise awareness raising initiatives to protect the natural environment.

Stirling conference

Justice and Peace Scotland and SCIAF will host a Season of Creation conference on 7th September in St Margaret’s, Raploch, Stirling. Parishioners from across Scotland are invited to come together to explore how they can take action for our common home.

Dr Ben Wilson, SCIAF’s Director of Public Engagement and member of the Holy See delegation at COP 28 will address the conference.

Online event

Fr Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam will speak at an online event on 19 September, beginning at 7pm.

Fr Kureethadam is Chair of Philosophy of Science and Director of the Institute of Social and Political Sciences at the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome. He was the Coordinator of the Sector of ‘Ecology’ at the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development from 2017-2023, where he continues to serve as a consultant.

His passion is to pass on to younger generations not only a sense of awe and wonder before the grandeur and majesty of the universe, but also a deep sense of concern for the increasingly precarious state of our common planetary home. He has been particularly associated with the study and diffusion of Laudato Si, Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter on Care for Our Common Home.

His publications include Creation in Crisis: Science, Ethics and Theology (Orbis Books, 2014), The Philosophical Roots of the Ecological Crisis  Cambridge Scholars, 2017), The Ten Green Commandments of Laudato Si’ (Liturgical Press, 2019); Laudato Si’ Reader (ed.) (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2021), Per Una Conversione Ecologica (Castelvecchi, 2023).]

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