Celebrate the world which God has given us:
To nurture.
To protect.
To appreciate.

Celebrate Earth Day at St. James.  Saturday, April 22 at 5:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 23 at 8:15 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.

Call to Prayer
We who have lost our sense and our senses—
our touch, our smell, our vision of who we are;
we who frantically force and press all things,
without rest for body or spirit,
hurting our Earth and injuring ourselves: we call a halt.

We want to rest.

We need to rest and allow the Earth to rest.

We need to reflect and to rediscover the mystery that lives in us,
that is the ground of every unique expression of life,
the source of the fascination that calls all things
to communion.

We declare a Sabbath,
a space of quiet: for simple being and letting be;
for recovering the great, forgotten truths;
for learning how to live again.

Prayer from Creation Justice Ministries; Earth Day Sunday 2023; Sowing Seeds, prophetic action to climate-changed lands.