Season of Creation Opening Mass
Celebrate the opening of the 2024 Season of Creation with a bilingual Mass, celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop Yvan Mathieu. The Mass begins at 5pm on Saturday, September 7th, at Notre-Dame Cathedral. The John Dorner award will be presented at the end of Mass followed by a reception in the Café des Tours (located on the lower level of the Cathedral).
About the Season of Creation
The Season of Creation is the annual Christian celebration to pray and respond together to the cry of Creation: the ecumenical family around the world unites to listen and care for our common home. The “Celebration” begins 1 September, the Feast of Creation, and ends 4 October, the Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of ecology. The theme for Season of Creation this year is To hope and act with Creation, and the symbol is the firstfruits of hope, inspired by Romans 8:19-25:
“For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.”
