Season of Creation 2025

We have entered the newest season of the liturgical cycle that runs until the Feast of St. Francis 5 October 2025.  The Episcopal Church is slowly awakening to the cry of creation.  In this betwixt and between place, we at St. Benedict Episcopal Church in the heart of Lacy shall lean forward to the new day and follow in the steps of others who are already setting forth the path of relationship with Creation and not domination. At St. Benedict, we look to the dove that proclaims the new Spirit flowing into the hope of reconciliation in Communion.
Creation Time is a part of the Season of Pentecost. It is when we celebrate the fact that creation is an integral part of all that we do … how we worship and honor a Creator God.  Our Biblical text for this year is Isaiah 32:14-18. The prophet Isaiah depicted a desolate creation without peace due to the absence of justice and the fractured relationship between God and humanity. This description of devastated cities and wastelands eloquently stresses the fact that human destructive behaviors harm the Earth
 
Orange is the corresponding liturgical color.   Creation Season and its color orange recapture an ancient Christian liturgical way of being that we had forgotten.
The color orange was:
• the Early Christian color for confessors, monastics, and matrons
• worn in some Russian churches during summer fasts; in Western rites, some mainline Protestant churches propose orange as a color for fall
• Some Orthodox Churches use scarlet, orange, or rust
Its Symbolism/Psychology:
• symbolic of endurance and strength
• color of fire and flame
• the red of passion tempered by the yellow of wisdom
• color of harvest, fruitfulness, joy
• color of positive energy