Season of Creation Daily

Season of Creation Daily: Back where it all started. Way back in the year 1225, St. Francis wrote of brother sun, sister moon, the stars, the wind … all creatures, in his Canticle of the Creatures. Pope Francis began his 2015 letter by quoting from it. "Praise be to you, my Lord, through all your creatures." Reading time: 40 seconds.

Season of Creation Daily: A new and serious response. Today's message gives us Mary Oliver's "big question." Reading time: 25 seconds.

Season of Creation Daily: Take the pledge. The beauty of the Laduato Si' Pledge is that it gives us a simple, three-phrase reminder of what to do. Reading time: one minute.

Season of Creation Daily: Be amazed. Today's message revisits our childhood sense of eye-opening wonder. Let's remember and revisit. Reading time: one minute.

Season of Creation Daily: Awe and wonder. Matthew Fox (Original Blessing) helps expand our understanding of "salvation" beyond sin/redemption to marveling and rejoicing in creation, and then protecting it.

Season of Creation Daily: The peace of wild things. In the face of despair and fear, where does Wendell Berry find rest and freedom? His short answer.

Season of Creation Daily: "Behold I make all things new." But, even "This is My Body" and "This is My Blood"? Yes. This message redirects our reverence to what we see as ordinary.

Season of Creation Daily: Our brain, our galaxy. And where's (Ralph) Waldo? And an invitation. 

Season of Creation Daily: Take a moment to reflect on the photo. Christianity has been an indoor religion. This message leads us outdoors with all of our senses alert. 

Season of Creation Daily: Active hope. Once in a while a prophet shows up, like Joanna Macy, talking about people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear. Read on.

Season of Creation Daily: We can read the Universe story in the trees. Plus, today's message includes a word challenge.

Season of Creation Daily: "The truly holy person welcomes all that is earthly." Hard to believe that’s a quote from the 12th century.

Season of Creation Daily: A thought about surface and depth. And "Holy Spirit, you are the cause of all movement, the breath of all creatures?" Who said that?

Season of Creation Daily: Earth teach me. Take a look at the world through the lens of "single use" — things we use only once and then toss. Toss into the …?

Season of Creation Daily: I live my life in widening circles. The larger world awaits us.

Season of Creation Daily: How do we face the world's crises yet maintain and model hope? There's a song that wants to sing itself in us. Click above to continue.

Season of Creation Daily: Nature's peace will flow into you. Today's message is from two American treasures: Ansel Adams and John Muir, and then an invitation.

Season of Creation Daily: I thank you God for this most amazing day. Re-use and recycle, even a poem.

Season of Creation Daily: Your place in the family of things. Can we listen and hear a call? A call from wild geese, from our bodies, from the world? The cry of the earth, the cry of the poor. Listen on.

Season of Creation Daily: May You Have the Grace. Maya Angelou opens today's message. In one minute, you'll have time to read her words twice.

Season of Creation Daily: A return to spiritual simplicity. The words of Langston Hughes and Pope Francis strike a chord together. Today's message takes a little over a minute. 

Season of Creation Daily: Connecting the word sacred to science and mathematics. Do you have one minute to see what Albert Einstein has to say? Today's edition includes an additional photo that we believe you'll find quite interesting.

Season of Creation Daily: What did Trappist Fr. Thomas Merton see outside his window? You can read today's message in 90 seconds, but think about it for years. 

Season of Creation Daily: Who is it who lacks nothing? Seven lines from St. Teresa of Avila; today's message takes 30 seconds to read.

Season of Creation Daily: Open your whole self. James Finley who was mentored by Trappist Fr. Thomas Merton frequently emphasizes, with a knowing confidence, how God loves creation precisely in its brokenness. Today, he and Joy Harjo, the first Native American U.S. poet Laureate, give us one minute of wisdom.

Season of Creation Daily: What can a person of faith do? Leaders from many traditions have joined to lead a simple path of response. Click above to read their invitation. And then another invitation.

Season of Creation Daily: Who writes this stuff? Pope Francis credits a team headed by Cardinal Peter Turkson with the first draft of "Laudato Si', On Care for Our Common Home," with theologians and various Vatican offices reviewing subsequent versions written by Francis. Today's message takes 45 seconds to read.

Season of Creation Daily: A better prayer. The gifted and wise John O'Donohue provokes our thinking, inviting us to write a prayer worthy of the destiny to which we are called. Click the headline above to spend a minute with today's message.

Season of Creation Daily: What if? One way to open our eyes is to ask some really good questions. Reading these two questions takes less than 10 seconds. Answering them? Click the headline to find out.

Season of Creation Daily: New eyes. "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes." (Marcel Proust) Today’s message, 90 seconds, invites us further on the journey. Click to go. 

Season of Creation Daily: Here's the question: Do you have enough...?  Today's 30-second message poses an intriguing question. Click above.

Season of Creation Daily: You can find a top 10 for everything; here are the highlights from the pope’s letter "Laudato Si', on Care for our Common Home," yours in less than a minute. Of course, most important will be not one of these 10 but … Click the headline to get to it.

Season of Creation Daily: Today's message from Julian of Norwich takes less than 30 seconds to read and invites you to play a game. Click the headline above.

Season of Creation Daily: Read the book of creation in order to know the author of life. Welcome to Season of Creation Daily. Our first message takes 45 seconds to read and will launch our mini-retreat. Just click the headline above to get started.