Creation Season

Introduction
Over the next few weeks as we go through the autumn a poem will be included with the weekly readings.
Some of the poems will be familiar and others may be new to you.
They will reflect thoughts and ideas associated with this time of year.

During the Creation Season we remind ourselves of God’s gift to us in all the wonders of creation. But we also remind ourselves that we should be caring for the earth rather than using it as a resource to be exploited.

Through the Season of Remembering we acknowledge that we and our communities have been affected by loss,
illness and death. We recognise those who have influenced our lives for good and we give thanks for God’s steadfast love.

Pied Beauty Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 – 1889

Martin Haugh’s cows

Glory be to God for dappled things –
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.