We had a meeting about the Season of Creation and the Jubilee year of St Francis of Assisi during September 2026.
Some songs that were suggested:
All You Works of God (Haugen)
Canticle of the Sun (Haugen)
On This Sacred Ground (Heaney, Janke)
Prayer of St Francis (Temple)
Canticle of Creation (Watts/O’Brien)
All Creatures of Our God and King (text attributed to St Francis)
Brother Wind (Susan Saint Sing)
Lord Make Us Servants of Your Peace (McKinley)
Make Me a Servant of Your Peace (McKenna)
Kapayapaan (Nieva)
Sacred Creation (Zaragoa)
Litany for the Earth (Bridge)
Tend the Ground (Stephan)
If you search on this site, there is information on all these songs.
We played through most them and liked many, but of those we hadn’t used before, Stephan’s “Tend the Ground” was the most congenial.
Three that could be added to that list are “For the Beauty of the Earth” (Folliott Pierpoint) and “Sing a New Song, Sing a New Song” (James P. McAuley) and “Touch the Earth Lightly” (Shirley Erena Murray).