Christ, Calendar and Lectionary

Abstract

Ecumenical proposals are currently apace about a new feast for the churches’ calendars—a ‘Feast of the Creation of the Cosmos’. This article notes with appreciation one important aspect of the feast—its detachment of christological liturgical celebration from northern hemisphere solstices (as Christmas) and equinoxes (as Easter). But it also raises concerns about failures of elite ecumenism to listen to the whole church about the whole mystery of Christ, and especially the feast proposal missing the opportunity to learn about grace from the earth in Oceanic perspective.