2024 September

Weekly Worship material throughout Creation Time has been produced by EcoCongregation Scotland and urges us to embed prayer with Creation into our regular worship practice, rather than as an occasional opt-in: this is ‘the real business’ of the Church, and the mainstream prayer and mission of the churches should always be ‘green’.

Sunday 1 September 2024 Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost – Year B

The EcoCongregation Scotland writing team encourage us to let the delight and the hope of the Song of Songs come fully into our worship. Love is the best motivation for prayer and positive action.

Sunday 8 September 2024 Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost – Year B

The EcoCongregation Scotland writing team ask, in the context of environmental justice, what is the deeper truth that we need to learn about our relationship with God’s creation

Sunday 15 September 2024 Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost – Year B

The EcoCongregation Scotland writing team explore the call to change our priorities – to put Jesus at the centre of our lives. In so doing, we can open ourselves up to the transforming power of the love of God, and change the world for good.

Sunday 22 September 2024 Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost– Year B

The EcoCongregation Scotland writing team look at how the spiritual reinforcement of doing the right thing in daily life bears fruit in our own resilience and the encouragement of our family, neighbours, church, and more.

Sunday 29 September 2024 Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost – Year B

The EcoCongregation Scotland writing team consider how this week’s readings highlight the need for collaboration, rather than domination, in faithfulness to God, and for the good of Creation.

Additional Material for the Week of Prayer for Peace in Palestine and Israel, 16-22 September 2024

A liturgy from St Andrew’s Jerusalem based on Jesus’ words: “Whatever you did, you did for me."