Season of Creation 2026

“Future generations will never forgive us if we miss the opportunity to protect our common home. We have inherited a garden; we must not leave a desert for our children.” Joint statement from Pope Francis, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury.

Theme: “Living Water”

This year’s theme, “Living Water”, explores Ezekiel 47:9 and 12 as a powerful biblical vision of hope and ecological healing. Set amid exile and loss, the image of living water flowing from God’s sanctuary reveals divine healing that renews land, water, biodiversity, and human responsibility towards the whole creation.

“Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large numbers of fish, because this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh; so where the river flows everything will live. […] Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.” (Ezek 47:9,12)

Resources available on the international Season of Creation website: www.seasonofcreation.org 

Please Click to Download the Seasons of Creation 2026 Celebration Guide

Message of our Holy Father Pope Leo XIV for the 11th World Day of Prayer for the Care of  Creation 

 “They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks” (Isaiah 2:4)

Please click  to read Pope Leo’s full message