Season of Creation 2025 Concludes with Woodland Liturgy in Dromintee Parish
Many thanks to Dromintee Parish for hosting a beautiful liturgy to mark the conclusion of the Season of Creation 2025. The celebration took place in the peaceful woodland setting of Jonesborough, where Bishop Michael Router was joined by Fr Seamus White, Parish Priest of Dromintee, Deacons George Kingsnorth and Brendan McKernan, and members of the Pastoral Team from the Archdiocese of Armagh.
A special word of thanks goes to the children and staff of Dromintee and Jonesborough Primary Schools, whose enthusiasm, prayers, and singing added so much joy to this outdoor celebration. Their participation reminded everyone that care for our common home begins with a sense of wonder and reverence for the world God has entrusted to us.
Season of Creation 2025 carried the theme “Peace with Creation.” This year’s theme invited us to reflect on how living in harmony with the natural world is part of living in harmony with God and one another. True peace is not only the absence of conflict, but the presence of right relationship, relationship with God, with our neighbours, and with the earth itself.
The woodland liturgy in Jonesborough was a living sign of this peace: surrounded by the beauty of creation, the community gathered to in prayer, gratitude and hope for a renewed world.
As we conclude this year’s Season of Creation, may St Francis of Assisi and the late Pope Francis inspire us to continue walking the path of peace with creation—protecting, cherishing, and nurturing the gift of our common home.
“Peace, justice, and the safeguarding of creation are three absolutely interconnected themes.”
— Pope Francis, Laudato Si’
A reflection from St Hildegard of Binge
Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars.
Gaze at the beauty of Earth’s greenings.
Now think what delight God gives to humankind.
But we are to work with it.
For without it we cannot survive.