About this Project
Origin of Season of Creation Daily
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At a 2018 meeting of the Creation Care Team (Paulist Center Boston) one of our members, Paul Lyons, reminded us of booklets in Advent and Lent with a page for each day of the season with scripture readings, thoughts and suggestions. ‘We should do something like that for Season of Creation,’ he suggested. Two other members added: ‘if we can help people love creation, they will naturally veer toward a path of caring for it.’
These were the germs that sprouted Season of Creation Daily.
I was immediately taken with these ideas. A believer in the power of daily reflection, I was inspired to create a vehicle that might nourish a daily pause – focused on our place in creation. Decades ago, I had been editor of my high school newspaper, later published a non-profit newsletter, and more recently was responsible for communications within companies. This idea seemed valuable and doable: create a daily reflection that would lead people to pause, reflect and act in care for our common home.
So, I started creating. ​The first edition of the daily reflections were published in 2019 and 2020 in The National Catholic Reporter, part of their EarthBeat coverage. In the following years, the same reflections were sent to interested subscribers, in 2024 to 600+ people.
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The reflections were refreshed in 2025, with the assistance of contributions from subscribers.
About
Peter McLoughlin
Peter McLoughlin has a passion for nature and the environment. He co-facilitates the Creation Care Team at the Paulist Center Boston focusing on implementing Pope Francis’ 2015 Letter, “Laudato Si’: on Care for Our Common Home” which encourages everyone to hear and respond to ‘the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.’
Peter’s main inspirations have been his many years of Jesuit training, the raising of amazing children, Buddhism, nature, Teilhard de Chardin, monks of Trappist monasteries, James Finley, John O’Donohue, Bobby McFerrin, and other gifts who have touched him deeply.
Peter and his wife Beth Kress live in Arlington MA and worship at the Paulist Center. They are involved with several ministries there. Peter is a musician and one of the hymns he's written was inspired by St. Francis’ Canticle of the Creatures (from which Pope Francis’ Encyclical takes its title): “All Creation Gives Praise: Laudato Si’.”
The Season of Creation Daily project was inspired by dynamism evident in the Global Catholic Climate Movement, the National Catholic Reporter, and the Paulist Center, and also by Peter’s belief in the value of a daily reflective practice as a springboard to living.
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Acknowledgements
2025 edition
Janet Broderick
Sonia Caus Gleason
Carol Defilippo
(Jim) Strad Engler
Pat Ferrick SSND
Katherine Foster
John Gioia
Peggy Hardiman
Shane Hardiman
Rich Hassinger
Cheryl Kemner
Beth Kress
Maurice Lange
Marjorie Lawless
Linda Neil SCJ
Marie O'Shea AGS
Bob Paine
Larry Petrovick
Kevin Rafferty
Mary Sherman
Bob Wegener
Kent Wittenburg
Acknowledgements
2019 edition​
Beth Kress, my siblings (Peggy, Ed, Jean, Kevin), my children (Luke, Ryan, Clare, Will), Paul Lyons for the original idea, Common Home Team (Trudy, AE, Bob, Dave O, Dave P, Chris O, Chris R., Paul, Janet, Joan), Small Faith Group (Trisha, Susan, Ralph, Gail, Julie, Eliza, Meg, Jeff), Tom Sharkey, Eileen Sharkey, Fran Ludwig, Christina Leano, Tom Barritt, Pat Montesano, Bill Mitchell, Carol Mitchell, Jim Piantidosi, Ed Marakovitz, Adnan Adam Onart, Charles Vadala
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Global Catholic Climate Movement
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