Environmental Stewardship Commission
(MEESC)

Episcopal Church in Minnesota
 
 

Upcoming Activities:

Next Meeting:

We meet quarterly close to the solstice and equinox.

Annual Special Projects

 

Resolutions:

Resolution on the Spirituality of Food Production

Resolution on Church Buildings and Grounds

Resolution on Creation Season
Resolution on Green Congregations

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Resources:
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Creation Season 2008
March 30 – May 4, 2008
(Easter 2 through Easter 7, Year A)

Welcome! We're glad you're planning on observing a liturgical season of creation. We have prepared some materials for you to use in worship and in teaching.

The outline below and the individual links will point you to materials for preparing various parts of services for the Creation Season for 2008 (Year A, Easter 2 through Easter 7). All Links go to the specific item except for the link for the Sunday, which will take you to a page for that Sunday.

Sunday Sunday Theme Gospel Theme Creation Themes
Reflections
Other
Easter 2
 "joyful faith and confident hope" Doubting Thomas precipitation cycle – rain – dew
Sub-Theme:
all life on earth depends on moisture of some kind
Readings
Hymns
Prayers
Easter 3 "response of thanksgiving for salvation" Road to Emmaus flowing water, rivers/streams
redeeming love flows from God like a stream
Sub-Theme:
life as a journey
OR the effluent of our lives impacts others
Homilist Notes
Bulletin Inserts:
Full Page
Half Page
Readings
Hymns
Prayers
Easter 4 Good Shepherd Sunday The Good Shepherd lakes and seas/oceans
God/Jesus is the Good Shepherd for all creation, not just humans
Sub-Theme:
oceans as heat and CO2 sinks
Readings
Hymns
Prayers
Easter 5 "deliverance from [our] enemies" Jesus is the way, truth, life water as integral to life social injustice of water inequity
Sub-Theme:
ecosystems/interdependency of habitat zones
"living stones"
wars, poverty, subsistence all threatened by human action
Readings
Hymns
Prayers
Easter 6 "resurrection as God's call to those trapped in idolatry" [God] will give an Advocate groundwater/wells
Sub-Theme:
how bottled water is depleting natural water supplies and creating false sense of security
Readings
Hymns
Prayers
Easter 7 "those who trust
in God recall the former deliverance…" 		'so that they may be one…' our cleanliness/footwashing
Sub-Theme:
humans can be the enemy of the rest of creation
Homilist Notes
Bulletin Inserts:
Full Page
Half Page
Readings
Hymns
Prayers

There are also some general References to help you with your Service and Religious Education Planning.

As a reminder, if you do reproduce information for use in your parishes, please follow the notation requirements on use of our materials.

If you have questions,  please send an e-mail to our webverger, any member of the MEESC, or write to:  

MEESC
c/o C. Morello
4451 Lakeside Drive
Eveleth, MN 55743-4400 USA

The MEESC assumes that all correspondence received is for publication on this web site. If your comments are not for publication, please so note on your correspondence. The MEESC reserves the right to decide which items are included on the web site.

 

   

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