Living Water: Season of Creation 2026

This year, Lutherans—along with other Christians around the world—have an opportunity to enter the mysteries of water in worship. Over the five Sundays of the Season of Creation, water and its many forms will be contemplated, learned from and joyfully thanked in worship services around the world.

The celebration is ecumenical. In 1989, Dimitrios I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church), established Sept. 1 as the Feast of Creation, and Pope Francis adopted it for the Roman Catholic Church in 2019. The World Council of Churches extended the feast to become a season of creation, ending with the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi on Oct. 4. In recent years the Vatican and many ecumenical partners, including the ELCA, have adopted this new season.

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