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Since the seventh century, September 1 has symbolized the day of the creation of the world in the Byzantine tradition. On September 6, we formally adopt and celebrate the Feast of Creation in Christ as a new festival in the common lectionary cycle. It is adopted by both Eastern and Westerns churches, the first time a new common festival shared across East and West has occurred in over a thousand years! 

The inauguration of this festival occurs as we face humanity's greatest moment of ecological peril and as the earth faces its sixth mass extinction event. It is the first mass extinction caused by a single species. 

The image attached to this Sunday is All Creation Waits © Jan Richardson. janrichardson.com. Used by permission under license # 1282. "All Creation Waits" references Romans 8:19-21.