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                               Placerville, California

     

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Gerald Manley Hopkins (1844 - 89) was a Catholic priest and poet whose work often focuses on the beauty of creation. In Pied Beauty he writes:

 

Glory be to God for dappled things -

For skies of couple-colour as a brindled cow;

For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;

Freshed-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;

Landscape plotted and pieced- fold, fallow, and plough:

And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;

Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)

With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;

He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:

Praise him.

 

It sometimes feels to me that the cyclical lectionary we follow to inform our Sunday worship celebrations does not give us adequate time to focus on God the Creator, the biblical call to worship with all creation and the mandate to care for creation. A Season of Creation, which we will celebrate for the first time this year is an opportunity for us to consider the True God as Creator of all things, Redeemer of all things, and Sustainer of all things and to express our gratitude for creation and our commitment to care for it.

 

Given the centrality of creation in our life as Christians and all the current threats to it, now is a good time to focus on this significant dimension of our faith and to do so at the center of our life together, namely in public worship. We will now, therefore, mark Advent as the season after Christmas, Lent as the season before Easter, and Creation as the season before Stewardship, beginning as follows:

      Sept 5th First Sunday in Creation: Ocean Sunday

      Scriptures: Job 38: 1-18; Luke 5, 1-11

       

      Sept 12th Second Sunday in Creation: Fauna Sunday

      Scriptures: Job 39: 1-8; Luke 12: 22-31

       

      Sept 19th Third Sunday in Creation: Storm Sunday

      Scriptures: Job 28: 20-27; Luke 8: 22-25

       

      Sept 26th Fourth Sunday in Creation: Cosmos Sunday

      Scriptures: Prov. 8: 22-31; John 6: 41-51

       

    This series of Sundays is called The Wisdom Series; may God help us recognize the Creative Wisdom of God in our world and empower us to celebrate and protect it.

Peace, Andrew

 

Federated Church  1031 Thompson Way  Placerville, CA 95667

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e-mail address: fedchrch@jps.net

 
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