Care of Creation

Season of Creation 2026

Theme: “Living Water”

This year’s theme, “Living Water”, explores Ezekiel 47:9 and 12 as a powerful biblical vision of hope and ecological healing. Set amid exile and loss, the image of living water flowing from God’s sanctuary reveals divine healing that renews land, water, biodiversity, and human responsibility towards the whole creation.

“Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large numbers of fish, because this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh; so where the river flows everything will live. […] Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.” (Ezek 47:9,12)

RESOURCES

Care of Creation

Creation provides us with the physical fabric of our lives; the natural environment gives us the stuff we use every day. It gives us the food for our tables, the material for our clothes and the materials to build our houses and churches. It is also a place where people have experienced a great closeness with God through its beauty and wonder.  Creation is a gift from God and provides us with these things, the basics for our lives.  

Modern technology has given us a many benefits that have helped alleviate suffering and create new methods of solidarity among people. At the same time, we can also see how it has made it easier for us to become alienated from our environment, and it has enabled the world’s natural resources to be over used and in some cases, depleted.  Care for Creation ensures that we protect and respect the gift that is our natural environment.

“Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don’t take care of the environment, there’s no way of getting around it.”
Pope Francis