Monday is the last day of August, and on Tuesday we go into September: the intense heat of the summer is over and we are going into the time when we celebrate what harvest remains after the drought. From September 1 until October 4, the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi (this year we mark the eighth centenary of his death), the Church leads us into the Season of Creation. The cover of Magnificat’s September issue is taken from an illumination painted around 1480, which brings all the imagery of creation to the foreground, as the accompanying essay (page 8) by Pierre-Marie Dumont explains.