With under two weeks to go until the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla, it seemed appropriate to use an extract from the above book. You may remember that the Prayer Booklet for the Coronation, which has been featured on this website before, has readings and reflections for each day until the Coronation itself. Oasis still has a few copies left but, as we have already sold nearly 40, you need to buy yours sooner rather than later.

The extract I am using is entitled “Concern for the environment.”

The earth is the Lord’s and all that fills it,

the compass of the world and all who dwell therein.

For he has founded it upon the seas

and set it firm upon the rivers of the deep. Psalm 24 1.2

The extract continues” King Charles has been alert to this challenge from his earliest years and we pray with him:

Glorious God, the whole creation sings your marvellous work: may heaven’s praise so echo in our hearts that we may be good stewards of the earth; and rejoice to be called your children. Amen”