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The celebration of Creation Day has its origin in the traditional religious wisdom that tells us that our
Christian faith strongly depends on our personal, private, and public prayers. The latter referring to our liturgical celebrations.
What we celebrate in our liturgies is what we believe in our hearts and prac-tice in our lives.
The rule of prayer is the rule of faith
[Lex credendi, lex orandi]
Thus, what we do not celebrate in our liturgies and commemorate in our prayers, we cannot easily integrate
into our life of faith or give expression to our faith praxis.
Concretely, as long as we do not celebrate God the Creator, consciously and extensively on a regular manner
during our annual liturgical calendar, it is not easy to believe in Him as the Creator of all there is. To understand Him
in the natural world in its cosmic, planetary, ecological, and human dimensions, is to learn to trust in the fundamental goodness
of creation and the abundant love of the Creator.
In 1989, a revival of this traditional religious wisdom was declared by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople,
Dimitrios I, when he announced a "Day of Prayer for Creation." The first day of September of each year is to be a day of prayers
and supplications for all creation."
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