What a special time to celebrate and to give thanks to our Creator God for the gift and blessing of the Harvest! Across the land a wide variety of fruits and vegetables are harvested and we are nourished and sustained by these gifts and by those who labour to plant and to reap. Pope Francis, in his recent encyclical, asks all of us to cherish and to protect the earth and to be generous in
sharing the fruits of the earth with our brothers and sisters.
God, whose farm is all creation,
Take the gratitude we give.
Take the finest of our harvest,
Crops we grow that people may live.
Take our ploughing, seeding, reaping;
Hopes and fears of sun and rain,
All our thinking, planning, waiting,
Ripened in this fruit and grain.
All our labour, all our watching,
All our calendar of care;
In these crops of your creation,
Take O God, they are our prayer.
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