Ecumenical momentum keeps growing and the Holy Spirit keeps blowing, with many church bodies deepening their participation in the Feast of Creation celebrations. This year, it will have the special ingredient of its enhanced format as a new liturgical feast in the official calendars of many churches, following the Assisi dialogues of recent years. A historic step.
The website www.FeastOfCreation.com has been updated with new resources to support the celebrations. In particular, it's worth noting that new hubs of resources have been published for the main groupings of churches, tailored to their diverse liturgical/worship modalities, as per our "unity in diversity".
1) For Protestant mainline/liturgical churches:
As you might be aware, a major milestone is that the Feast of Creation in Christ was officially adopted by the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) used by many Protestant and Anglican churches. In parallel, resolutions continue to be adopted by national churches (example) and global denominational bodies (example). Moreover, many churches have already started to publish their liturgical materials for the festival, for celebrations to begin this September. Resources are being compiled here: www.FeastOfCreation.com/Liturgical-Texts
2) For Protestant “non-liturgical / Free Church” traditions:
The global bodies of the "Free Church" traditions who don’t follow a set liturgical calendar (as Evangelicals, Baptists, Pentecostals, Mennonites, Salvationists) have prepared new resources to help pastors and congregations with their ‘Creation Sunday’ worship services:
www.Creation-Sunday.com
3) For Eastern Orthodox churches:
For Byzantine churches, as we know, this has already been a liturgical feast since ancient times, with newer liturgical services added since 1989. The resources are compiled here:
www.feastofcreation.com/eastern-orthodox
4) For other Eastern churches:
The Middle East Council of Churches has continued to support Non-Byzantine Eastern churches with their Feast of Creation celebrations, with various materials compiled here:
www.feastofcreation.com/non-byzantine-eastern-churches
5) For Roman Catholics:
Roman Catholic continental episcopal bodies and related networks have prepared resources to help parishes to celebrate ‘Creation Day’ with the new liturgy promulgated by Pope Leo:
www.WorldDayCreation.com