Below is a compilation of some of the liturgical texts being prepared for the Feast of Creation in Christ (also known as Feast of Creation), compiled to enable cross-pollination across churches and support liturgy commissions adding the festival to their worship books. Most texts were drafted specifically for the new feast, while a few other texts had been drafted earlier for broader use on the creation theme.ย
Additional texts are warmly welcome through the "Open Call for Liturgical Texts".
Worship resources from "Free Church" traditions who don't follow set liturgical texts are being collected through a parallel process and resources hub.
WORKSHOP RECORDINGS
The global bodies convening the Feast process organized three workshops in April-May 2026 to support liturgy commissions preparing their texts. The recordings are available in the following links:
INTRODUCTORY RITES โ facilitated by Cheryl Lindsay (Consultation on Common Texts & United Church of Christ)
EUCHARISTIC/COMMUNION PRAYERS โ facilitated by Christopher Irvine (International Anglican Liturgical Consultation)
LECTIONARY & PREACHING โ facilitated by Lisa Hancock (Consultation on Common Texts & United Methodist Church)
LECTIONARY READINGS:
Revised Common Lectionary:
Download texts: here
Resource status: approved by the Consultation on Common Texts for the Revised Common Lectionary, for a three-year trial period (2026-2028); the readings will be reviewed again after this trial period.
Preaching resources based on the RCL readings for Year A will be posted here soon. In the meantime, submissions of preaching resources are warmly welcome through the "Open Call" linked above.
FULL EUCHARISTIC/COMMUNION SERVICES
Church of England (Anglican):
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Resource status: draft by the Liturgy commission, which already received preliminary approval by the General Synod and House of Bishops, to receive final approval by the General Synod in July 2026.
Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia:
Download text: here
Resource status: approved.
Church of South India
Download text: here
Resource status: approved.
EcoCongregation Scotland / United Reformed Church:
Download text: here
Resource status: for use in an ecumenical service, not tied to a denominational liturgical commission.
Rev. Neil Vigers (Church of England):
Download text: here
Resource status: shared in a personal capacity.
EUCHARISTIC PRAYERS
Anglican Church of Southern Africa:
Download text: here
Resource status: approved for experimental use.
Methodist Church of New Zealand
Download text: here
Resource status: approved.
Rev. Dr. Frank C. Senn (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America):
Download text: here
Resource status: shared in a personal capacity.
Fr Thapelo Masemola (Anglican Church of Southern Africa):
Download text: here
Resource status: draft proposed to the Provincial Liturgical Committee of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.
EcoCongregation Scotland / United Reformed Church:
Download text: here
Resource status: from an ecumenical body, not tied to a denominational liturgical commission.
OTHER LITURGICAL TEXTS
Church of England (Anglican):
Note: this resource book is for creation theme generally, but some prayers may fit a service for the new Feast.
Download text: here
Resource status: approved.
Christian Conference of Asia
Note: this non-eucharistic liturgy was for the 2023 version of the annual Asia Sunday service, with the title "God, Renew Us in Your Spirit and Restore the Creation". It was linked to the CCA 15th General Assemblyโs theme which was focused on creation care.
Download text: here
Resource status: approved.
EcoCongregation Scotland / United Reformed Church:
Note: text for introductory rites (Gathering / Call to Worship & Confession / assurance of pardon).
Download text: here
Resource status: for use in an ecumenical service, not tied to a denominational liturgical commission.
Anglican Church of Korea:
Rev. Laura Baumgartner (United Methodist Church):
SFTC:
Note: worship service entitled โA Liturgy on Creation Careโ.
Download text: here
Resource status: not affiliated with any given church or liturgy commission; SFTC is a Christian nonprofit organization.
If you need to contact any of the churches or scholars preparing these texts, you can ask CreationFeast [at] gmail.com for a connection.
The submission of new resources is welcome through the following link:
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