Under Construction

Laurel Dykstra

While it might not look like much is happening on the surface, Wild Lectionary is hard at work behind the scenes. Several Wild Lectionary contributors are part of a Task Group of the Anglican Church of Canada helping to prepare liturgical material for the Feast of the Creator. In 2025 the Anglican church of Canada adopted the Feast of the Creator as a Major Feast within the liturgical calendar to be celebrated on September 1, transferrable to a Sunday within the Season of Creation. This is a celebration that the Orthodox Church has observed for over a millennium, marking God’s original acts of creation and by 1989 expanding the focus to include prayers for creation. Invited by the Ecumenical Patriarch, representatives of major world Communions have been engaging the question of adopting this Feast. 

The mandate of the Task Group is to connect, convene and communicate. What that looks like is: Conversations with our various communities -which span farm, forest, seminary, church hierarchy, and congregations of all sizes; Spending time on the land; Excited nerdy introvert work considering and comparing biblical texts, finding and composing prayers; Critiquing the emphases and oversights of our current lectionary model; Enthusiastic championing and debate of favorite materials; And careful listening to one another.

Stay tuned as the fruits of this labour become available through Wild Lectionary and the Anglican Church of Canada’s communication channels. 

Image: photo by Harrison Keely licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution 4.0 International license