“Each year from September 1 to October 4, the Christian family unites for this worldwide celebration of prayer and action to protect our common home. It is a special season where we celebrate God as Creator and acknowledge Creation as the divine continuing act that summons us as collaborators to love and care for the gift of all that is created. As followers of Christ from around the globe, we share a common call to care for Creation. We are co-creatures and part of all that God has made. Our well-being is interwoven with the well-being of the Earth.”
– Season of Creation Ecumenical Steering Committee
Season of Creation Resources
Living Water: Season of Creation 2026 Celebration Guide
Creation Care in the Diocese of Maine
NEW! Province 1 EcoRegion Daily Devotions
What is your parish doing to educate, advocate, and celebrate during the Season of Creation? Send the details to Director of Communications Susan Sherrill Axelrod and we’ll share them here.
St. Bart’s, Yarmouth
This fall St. Bart’s will celebrate the Season of Creation from Sunday, Sept. 13 to Sunday, Oct. 11, with liturgies highlighting God’s creation that sustain and inspire us, while calling for actions on behalf of “this fragile earth, our island home” (Book of Common Prayer, Eucharistic Prayer C, p. 370).
In addition to Sunday worship, The Climate Action Committee will be sponsoring some parish-wide activities, including a Carbon Challenge and the “Climate Future Film Festival.”
The “Climate Future Film Festival” features several international short films that imaginatively explore a variety of responses to the impacts of global warming—with drama, comedy, dance, animation, and documentary. There will be two parts: the first on Sunday, Sept. 13 at 4 p.m. and the other on Sunday, Sept. 27 also at 4 p.m. Come for some light refreshments, films, and conversation.
Emmanuel Lutheran Episcopal, Augusta
Emmanuel’s celebration starts Sunday, Sept. 6 and ends with a celebration of St Francis Day and the Blessing of the Animals on Sunday, Oct. 4. This five-week season is a time to think about God as the creator and sustainer of that is. The church sometime calls creation the book of nature, in which God love for everyone, and everything can be read. This time at the end of summer, though the glory of full is a time for us to remember that we are to be stewards of the world that God has made for us, we are coworkers with Christ in the garden of creation. Living Water has been identified by the church as the theme for 2026, so we will be going to the river.
Sunday Sept 6:
9 a.m. Maine Eucharistic prayer
10:30 a.m. Tree Planting
10:45 a.m. Coffee and Conversation: “What does it mean to connect with each other?”
Sunday Sept. 13:
9 a.m. All Creation Sings Eucharist
10:30 a.m. Poetry Sharing at Coffee Hour
Wednesday, Sept. 16
10 a.m. Bishop Nathan Pipho of the New England Synod joins us for Celtic Eucharist and lunch
Sunday Sept 20:
9 a.m. All Creation Sings Eucharist
10:30 a.m. Prayer Walk in our back woods
Sunday Sept 27:
9 a.m. All Creation Sings Eucharist
11:30 a.m. Picnic and Pray by the River, Mill Park
Sunday Oct 4:
9 a.m. Feast of St Francis
10:30 am Blessing of the Animals at Church
Wednesdays, Sept. 9, 16, 23, 30:
10 a.m. Celtic Eucharist
5 p.m. Bring your own brown bag dinner
5:30 p.m. Creation Bible Study
St. Margaret’s, Belfast
Joining with our ecumenical faith community from Sept. 1 through the Feast of St. Francis on Oct. 4 for the Season of Creation, we will be guided by the vision of the prophet Ezekiel (47:1–12): a river flowing from the temple of God, which grows without stopping and brings life where everything seems barren.
Tuesday, Sept. 1
6 p.m. Creation Care Taize
Wednesday, Sept. 2
9:30 a.m. Healing the Earth Service
Saturday, Sept. 19:
10 a.m. – noon Garden Clean Up, bring your own clippers, spades, rakes, shovels and trashbags. Followed by a potluck lunch.
Sunday, Oct. 4
5 p.m. Canticle of the Creatures and Evensong