Lectionary Reflections: Book of Revelation for the Book of Creation

On this page, you will find links to Care for Creation reflections on the Lectionary Readings for various Sundays and select feasts. In some cases, these reflections feature Saints and other witnesses from the Franciscan family. We hope that these reflections enrich your life of contemplation and action! Please attribute the Franciscan Action Network in any reproduction of these materials.

Easter 2011 (Cycle A): "Resurrection in Creation"

• Easter Week (PDF); Resurrection in Creation
• Third Sunday of Easter (PDF); Walking from Suffering to Resurrection
  
• Fourth Sunday of Easter (PDF); Water for Living
  
• Fifth Sunday of Easter (PDF); Planting Living Stones
• Sixth Sunday of Easter (PDF); Welling up the Water
• Seventh Sunday of Easter - Ascension (PDF): Godly Power
• Pentecost (PDF): Pentecost Partnership
  

Lent 2011 (Cycle A): "Crucified Creation"

• First Sunday of Lent (PDF) March 13; Temptation and Sacrifice
  
• Second Sunday of Lent (PDF) March 20; Transfiguration and Transformation
  
• Third Sunday of Lent (PDF) March 27; Water Welling Up
• Fourth Sunday of Lent (PDF) April 3; Awakening to God's Gift of Creation
• Fifth Sunday of Lent (PDF) April 10; Grief and Healing
• Passion Sunday (PDF) April 17; Innocent Blood
• Holy Week (PDF) April 20; The Way We Treat Ourselves: Gulf Oil Spill Anniversary
  

• Ash Wednesday Reflection (PDF) on carbon in creation
• Lenten Calendar 2011 (PDF) from Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia
• Talk on sharing our values with others through collaboration (PDF) from Br. Jeffrey Wilson, TOR
• Stations of the Cross (PDF) according to St. Francis of Assisi
• Stations of the Cross with John Paul II: On the path of ecological conversion (PDF), courtesy of Fr. Jacek Orzechowski, OFM
• Las Estaciones de la Cruz con Juan Pablo II: Camino de la conversión ecológica (PDF), courtesy of Fr. Jacek Orzechowski, OFM
• Ecological Stations of the Cross (PDF), courtesy of St. Barbara Province (OFM)
  
• Amicus Brief in the case of American Electric Power v. Connecticut
  

Sundays in Ordinary Time 2011 (Cycle A)

• 2nd (PDF) January 16
  

Sundays in Advent 2010 (Cycle A)

• Care for Creation Homily for Advent 2010, Fr. Larry Janezic, OFM (PDF)

Sundays in Ordinary Time 2010 (Cycle C)  

• Solemnity of All Saints (PDF)
  November 1
  
• Monday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time 2010 (Cycle C) (PDF) 
  - Feast of St. Francis (October 4)
  
• 27th & 28th (PDF)
  - Theresa Hackelmeier (September 27), St. Mary Frances of the Five Wounds (October 4), Bl. Mary Angela Truszkowska (October 10)
  
• 23rd & 24th (PDF) 
  - Nativity of Mary (September 8)
  
• 19th & 20th (PDF)
  - Transfiguration of the Lord (August 6), St. Clare (August 11), Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (August 15)
  
• 11th & 12th and 15th & 16th: A Franciscan Response to the Gulf Oil Disaster
  - St. Elizabeth of Portugal (July 4), St. Veronica Giuliani (July 10), St. Bonaventure (July 15)

Sundays in Lent and Easter 2010 (Cycle C): Behold a New Creation