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Season of Creation 2023

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The Environmental Concerns Committee has a variety of ways to get involved in this year’s Season of Creation, Sept. 1-Oct. 4, 2023.

—Season of Creation take-home calendar bulletin stuffer Aug. 26-27. If you didn’t get a copy, download it below!

Click Here for the Downloadable Calendar in English & SpanishDownload

—Mighty River of Prayer and Action: throughout the Season of Creation, stop by the display in the Commons. Take a Post-It note and write your commitment to care for creation, a prayer of gratitude for creation, or how you will celebrate. Add it to the display!

—Film Viewing and Discussion of The Letter: A Message for Our Earth: Monday, Sept. 18th 6:30-8:30pm in English & Spanish. Click here for more information.

—Volunteer with the ECC at the Buckthorn Bust on Saturday, Sept. 30th at 9am! Click here for more information.

—GotSneakers Collection Aug. 26th through Sept. 24th. View the event page with details here.

—Fr. Denny Bike Rack Memorial & Pet Blessing: Oct. 8th 4-4:30pm in the parking lot. View the event page with details here.

Pillars of Living Lent: Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving

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Sometimes it might feel like Lent is part of the same old routine, but each Lenten Season, God invites us to something new! The pillars remain the same but their meaning may evolve or deepen as our lives change.

This Lent, you’re invited to join in one or more of the following ways to connect anew to Lent.

Fasting: “Rend Your Heart: Offering Humility in Lent”

What: Occasional fasting is widely practiced and has become a cornerstone of Lenten practice, but how might we think holistically about our call to “fast”? Where does fasting fit into our daily spirituality and can we approach the effort so as to deepen our love of God and neighbor beyond the Lenten Season? Join Mike Rios-Keating of Catholic Charities Twin Cities for a conversation on fasting, humility, and an invitation to re-think our spiritual commitments.

When: Tuesday, Feb. 28th from 6:30-7:30pm

Where: Bays at Risen Savior

Free will donations accepted. Childcare available with RSVP by Feb. 21st.

Click here to sign up

Prayer: Meaningful Conversations about Prayer Series

What: This is a 4-part series with presentations, individual reflections, and small-group engagement. The series is an opportunity to learn and share important ideas about communicating with God.

When: Tuesdays from 7-8:30pm

  • Mar. 7th: How and Why We Pray
  • Mar. 14th: Praying with Our Own Words
  • Mar. 21st: Praying with Scripture
  • Mar. 28th: Praying with the Church’s Words

Where: Bays at Risen Savior

Click Here to register for the prayer series

Almsgiving: Joining Hands in Loving Service to Others

Almsgiving means donating resources to the poor and practicing the works of mercy and acts of justice. In addition to many regular opportunities to serve, this Lent we have a few special projects, too! These are not only opportunities for almsgiving but also for parish integration and getting to know one another across cultures by joining hands in service.

  • Prepare or Serve a Meal with Loaves and Fishes in Burnsville: Weds., Mar. 8th 1:30-5pm or 4:30-7pm
Click here to sign up for loaves and fishes march 8th
  • Join the Parish Lenten Spring Clean at Risen Savior: Sat., Mar. 18th: details are still coming together but we are looking for both “cleaners” and folks to help prepare and serve a meal for the volunteers
Click here to sign up for the spring clean march 18th
  • Pack food with Feed My Starving Children in Eagan: Mon., Mar. 20th 7-8:45pm or Thurs., Mar. 23rd 2-3:45pm
click here to sign up for feed my starving children on mon. Mar. 20th
Click here to sign up for feed my starving children on thurs. mar. 23rd

JustFaith 2022: Faith and Racial Equity

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In July 2022 Risen Savior polled our parishioners to ask which justice issue they would like to learn more about in a JustFaith group. The topic with the most interest is “Faith and Racial Equity: Exploring Power and Privilege.” We are excited to offer this small group starting the week of Sept. 12th!

What is JustFaith? JustFaith programs are 8-10 week small-group experiences where participants commit to learning, praying, and reflecting together about a justice issue facing us today. 

Why Faith and Racial Equity? This is a 10-week small group with an opening retreat, 8 group sessions, and an immersion experience. Program goals include

  • Develop awareness of the ways that racial privilege impacts our communities and ourselves
  • Through a deep dive into the Gospel of Luke, learn how Jesus’s teachings guide us in seeking racial justice in today’s world.
  • Learn practical tools for becoming anti-racist, and for effecting change in our communities.

This program awakens participants to the economic systems, public policies, cultural norms, and hidden biases that empower some and oppress others.

When: We are offering 2 group times: Mondays in person at Risen Savior from 10am-12pm and Wednesday evenings virtually from 7-9pm. Groups meet weekly starting the week of Sept. 12th through the week of Nov. 14th. (Please note: we changed the in-person group to meet on Mondays instead of Tuesdays to accommodate more schedules.)

Cost: The program registration is $50 which includes a copy of each of the 3 books needed and the program’s supplemental materials from JustFaith. Participants receive online and hard copy access.

Season of Creation 2021: A home for all? Renewing the oikos of God

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About the Season of Creation: September 1st-October 4th
The Season of Creation is celebrated annually by tens of thousands of Christians around the world. During the Season of Creation, we pray and act to protect God’s creation. The Season of Creation is celebrated by Christians across the ecumenical spectrum, and the leaders of many faith traditions have encouraged us to participate.
The season begins on September 1, the Day of Prayer for Creation, and runs through
October 4, the Feast of St. Francis, who is the patron saint of ecology in many traditions.
This season is a special time for the Creator and each other. Some of us pray, some of
us do hands-on projects, some of us advocate. We all protect creation.
The momentum continues long after the season ends. By seeding ongoing prayer,
changes in lifestyle, and advocacy, the season grows hope in our communities each
year. It’s powerfully good work that’s urgently needed.

Season of Creation Prayer for 2021

Creator of All,
We are grateful that from your communion of love you created our planet to be a home
for all. By your Holy Wisdom you made the Earth to bring forth a diversity of living beings that filled the soil, water and air. Each part of creation praises you in their being, and cares for one another from our place in the web of life.
With the Psalmist, we sing your praise that in your house “even the sparrow finds a
home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young.” We remember that you call human beings to keep your garden in ways that honor the dignity of each creature and conserve their place in the abundance of life on Earth.
But we know that our will to power pushes the planet beyond her limits. Our
consumption is out of harmony and rhythm with Earth’s capacity to heal herself.
Habitats are left barren or lost. Species are lost and systems fail. Where reefs and
burrows, mountaintops and ocean deeps once teemed with life and relationships, wet
and dry deserts lie empty, as if uncreated. Human families are displaced by insecurity
and conflict, migrating in search of peace. Animals flee fires, deforestation and famine,
wandering in search of a new place to find a home to lay their young and live.
In this Season of Creation, we pray that the breath of your creative Word would move
our hearts, as in the waters of our birth and baptism. Give us faith to follow Christ to our just place in the beloved community. Enlighten us with the grace to respond to your
covenant and call to care for our common home. In our tilling and keeping, gladden our
hearts to know that we participate with your Holy Spirit to renew the face of your Earth, and safeguard a home for all.
In the name of the One who came to proclaim good news to all creation, Jesus Christ.
Amen.

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