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Creation Season 2008 (Year A)
October 5 – 26, 2008

Proper 22, Year A
(October 5, 2008)

Special Recognition of the Place of Food in our Lives:
Food as Commodity

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, teaching, and personal reflection for this Sunday.

The list of Creation Season resources below is designed to help you find additional information that can apply to the food themes of this Sunday for use in sermon preparation and Religious Education activities of all ages and in sermon preparation.

Materials for this week' study

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, 2001, Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin (ISBN-10: 0395977894)

"A Human-Made Disaster" by Elizabeth Palmberg, pp. 13-15;
"The Shortage Isn't Food, It's Democracy" by Frances Moore Lappé, pp16-18
"The 'Zambia Food Crisis'" by Peter Henriot, SJ.
all in Sojourner's Magazine, July 2008.
"Field of Corporate Dreams: Farming without the Farmers" by Debra Bendis in The Christian Century, June 19-26, 2002. Available online.
The Unsettling of America, Wendell Berry, Sierra Club Books, 1996 (ISBN-13: 9780871568779)
Slow Food USA at http://www.slowfoodusa.org
 

 

Suggestions for Children:

  1. This week is the traditional time for many to do a Blessing of the Animals liturgy or otherwise recognize St. Francis of Assisi. If this is part of your tradition, please continue to offer this service.
  2. Parents and teachers might want to help children see how many animals are or could be considered pets. If you have access to 4-H students or a program coordinator, have someone come and tell the story of raising a cow, pig or sheep.

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Note: The List of additional resources was prepared by the Rev Wanda Copeland.

 

We welcome your comments. Please address your comments or additional reflections to any MEESC member, or mail them to:


MEESC
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4451 Lakeside Drive
Eveleth, MN 55743-4400 USA

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