The September issue of the journal is usually available on the first of the month. That date has also come to have particular significance for many of us, but for an entirely different reason. In 2015, Pope Francis designated September 1 as the “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation.”¹ Other Western Christian communities had already been celebrating the day with creation-themed prayer, and with Francis’s act, the day has truly gained wide and deep ecumenical purchase. The history of the celebration in Western churches can be traced to Ecumenical Patriarch Demetrios’s 1989 invitation to “the entire Christian world,” in which he asked that September 1 be designated a day of “prayers and supplications to the Maker of all, [offered] both as thanksgiving for the great gift of Creation and as petitions for its protection and salvation.”²