"Season of Creation" versus "Liturgical Calendar"
Personal
reflection:
Why create a
manufactured “Season of Creation” when the Church already has a magnificent “Liturgical
Calendar”?
The “Season
of Creation” is a month long celebration from September 1 – October 4.
The website “Catholic
Culture” has the following Catholic explanation for the month of September
and Feasts for September 2023: “September falls during the liturgical season
known as Tempus per Annum or Ordinary Time (formerly Time After Pentecost),
which is represented by the liturgical color green. Green is a symbol of hope,
as it is the color of the sprouting seed and arouses in the faithful the hope
of reaping the eternal harvest of heaven, especially the hope of a glorious
resurrection.”
Feasts for September 2023
3. TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY
TIME, Sunday
8. Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
Feast
9. Peter Claver (USA), Memorial
10. TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY
TIME, Sunday
12. Most Holy Name of Mary, Opt. Mem.
13. John Chrysostom, Memorial
14. Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Feast
15. Our Lady of Sorrows, Memorial
16. Cornelius and Cyprian, Memorial
17. TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME,
Sunday
19. Januarius, Opt. Mem.
20. Andrew Kim Taegon, Paul Chong Hasang
and Companions; Ember Wednesday, Memorial
21. Matthew, Apostle, Feast
23. Pius of Pietrelcina; Ember Saturday,
Memorial
24. TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY
TIME, Sunday
26. Cosmas and Damian, Opt. Mem.
27. Vincent de Paul, Memorial
28. Wenceslaus; Lawrence Ruiz and
Companions, Opt. Mem.
29. Michael, Gabriel & Raphael,
Archangels, Feast
30. Jerome, Memorial
We should work
together for our common home which is “Heaven” not earth.
Enticements
of free coffee, tacos, and paletas are offered to get people to attend.
Is this a
pilgrimage or just a walk from Mission San Francisco de La Espada to Mission
San Juan?
Make the
Catholic choice and choose to celebrate the Feasts of September 2023, not the
so-called, made-up, “season of creation”.
Choose to
care for God’s human creatures above caring for God’s creation of nature.
Choose to
care for God’s human life above caring for God’s earthly creation of plants and animals.
Choose to celebrate
God’s greatest gift of human life above celebrating God’s earthly created gift to humanity.
“God blessed
them and God said to them: Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue
it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the
living things that crawl on the earth. God also said: See, I give you every seed-bearing
plant on all the earth and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit on it to be
your food; and to all the wild animals, all the birds of the air, and all the
living creatures that crawl on the earth, I give all the green plants for food.”
Genesis 1: 28 - 30