01/09/2026
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A BLESSED SEASON OF CREATION!
The theme for this yearâs Season of Creation is Living Water, inspired by Ezekiel 47: 9 and 12: âSwarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large numbers of fish, because this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh; so where the river flows everything will live. [...] Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.â
To make this Season of Creation meaningful, let us contemplate the water flowing from the sanctuary in Ezekielâs vision and see the sanctuary as the Womb of God, the Source of all life, and from this Womb all the water in the Universe come from.
The prophetâs vision reminds us that water is living and water is life. His vision tells of the overflowing grace of living water â abundance of life!
Let us daily contemplate, with gratitude, this Season of Creation the gifts that we are receiving from the living waters on Earth â the Oceans and the Rivers.
Let us daily contemplate the living water flowing from our tap. Every drop of water on Earth is living and comes from the Divine and is therefore sacred. May this consciousness awaken in each one of us a reverence to every drop of water that comes from our tap and from that reverence see how precious every drop of water is. May our celebration of this Season of Creation deepen our consciousness that water is not just a physical resource to be used by us as we see fit and worse to be indiscriminately wasted.
Lastly, let us daily contemplate our body that is, more or less, 75% water. We are also living water!
May these contemplative practices during this Season of Creation bring us to a more radical commitment to care for the living water in us and around us.
May the living water that we are overflow with grace for the wellbeing and life of Earth and the entire Earth-Community.
One with all of you,
Sr. Elizabeth "Bing" Carranza
Coordinator, LSM Pilipinas