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Welcome, Protect, Promote and Integrate In a recent issue of the PeaceNewsletter from the JPIC in India,Vice Provincial PaulCherukoduth, CP recognizes thestaggering numbers of refugeesand migrants world wide. It istruly a global crisis. Pauldiscusses a May seminar inRome organized by the JPICdesk of USG and UISG (theUnions of Superiors General of
men and women Congregations respectively) on the theme: “Prophetic Religious Lifeand the Four Verbs on Migrants and Refugees”. The four verbs are Welcoming,Protecting, Promoting and Integrating and are taken from Pope Francis’ 2018Message for World Day of Migrants and Refugees. Paul says, "Undoubtedly, to protect, promote and integrate migrants and refugeesone must begin with an act of welcoming which then becomes an encounter with theChrist, the unknown guest in our midst. On a global level the number of internationalmigrants and refugees are estimated around 270 million and we know that thatnumber keeps growing every day. In India, the inter-state migrants are numberedaround 139 million, of whom 40 million work on constructions sites, 20 million aredomestic workers, 2 million are sex-workers and the others fall into various othercategories... To rephrase Paul of the Cross: May we be able to see the name ofJesus written on the foreheads of the Migrants and Refugees. May we learn to lovethe stranger as ourselves!"
From the U.S. Vision Statement of the Passionist Sisters' Communities ofDodge City, Kansas, and Lincoln, Nebraska:
May the Passionist charism continue to be embodied in our migrant people, and inthe future, we will be able to work together with Passionist sisters and brothers in thesame mission of building the Kingdom. Read the vision statement here
Moral and economic reasons to divest from fossil fuels
The Maryknoll Office of Global Concerns has createdthe first in a series of articles designed to educateCatholic organizations about ways to participate in thefastest growing divestment campaign in humanhistory - the fossil fuel divestment movement. It waspublished in the May-June 2018 issue of MaryknollNewsNotes. Read the article here. Image: "Do the Math," logo for a 45-minute film
produced by 350.org based on the lecture Bill McKibben first presented in2012. Watch online. Follow up reading: Divestment from fossil fuels is a witness to our faith
Homily for the Indigenous: Fr. Kevin Dance, CP On the 175th Anniversary of the Passionist Missionaries’ Arrival on StradbrokeIsland, Australia, Fr. Kevin Dance, CP delivered the homily. "One hundred andseventy-five years ago a Swiss born Passionist Joseph Snell, along with ArchbishopPolding, stepped ashore to begin the Catholic Church’s first mission to Aboriginalpeople. Today we pause to remember. And to play around a little with words, can wethink of re-member as a way of putting things together in a better harmony than theyhave known before... The message they brought was beautiful, their intentions weregood, but their efforts were clumsy. They found another land, a different culture,other languages. There were no anthropology courses back then to help themunderstand how to do the mission of Jesus." Read Fr. Dance's homily here
Image: Miriam-Rose Ungunmer,13th Station
Passionist JPIC signs letter
The JPIC Committee, Passionists of NorthAmerica joined other religious leaders insigning a letter drafted by the Coalition forHuman Needs. The letter opposes cuts andfuture recision packages requested byPresident Trump. The cuts will include morethan $15 billion from domestic programs -almost half of it from the Children's Health
Insurance Program (CHIP). It includes cuts to a CHIP reserve fund that could makeit harder for states to respond to rising enrollments in the aftermath of disasters orrising unemployment. Other unspent funds to be cut ("rescinded") have been part ofbipartisan agreements that allow needed increases in health, education, and otherimportant programs. Read the final letter here
Poor Peoples Campaign - "Movement not a Moment" Two more weeks remaining in the 40 day focus of the New Poor Peoples Campaignand the themes will be: Week 5 (June 10-16) Everybody’s Got the Right To Live: Education, Living Wages, Jobs, Income, Housing
Week 6 (June 17-23) A New andUnsettling Force: Confronting theDistorted Moral Narrative From the beginning, this hasbeen described as a "movementnot a moment." Therefore,on Saturday, June 23, 10:00 a.m.EDT there will be a Global Dayof Solidarity and Sending Forth
Call to Action Mass Rally in Washington, D.C. The new U.S. campaign is reigniting efforts to unite the poor, disenfranchised, andmarginalized to transform our nation’s political, economic and moral structures. Over30 state campaigns launched at state capitals across the U.S. on February 5,"serving notice that if our voices are not heard and our issues remain unaddressed,we are prepared to take direct action and engage in nonviolent civil disobedience."
More background hereHistory and context hereTaking up MLK's Mantle
St. Louis Climate Summit Video ArchiveInternational experts in climate science, ecology, sustainable development, andrelated disciplines convened at the 2018 Saint Louis Climate Summit, hosted bySaint Louis University as part of its Bicentennial Celebration. It was inspired by PopeFrancis’ convocation of leaders to the Vatican in 2014, and the document thatemerged to defend of the health and well-being of the planet. Click on image below.
"Cardinal Peter Turkson stressed that creation is the loving work of God, somethingthat doesn't have an ownership and exists to support human life. Because creation is"a fruit of God's decided action," everything in it has a purpose..." St. Louis Review
Resource: Emergence Magazine
The recently launchedEmergence Magazine is aninitiative of the KalliopeiaFoundation. The magazine is afree, quarterly online publicationwith an annual printed edition. Itfeatures digital media as well asthe written word. Podcasts canbe subscribed to with anyplatform. Issue #1 is availablenow and the next issue due onJuly 15th.
The magazine describes it's purpose this way: "It has always been a radical act toshare stories during dark times. They are a regenerative space of creation andrenewal. As we experience the desecration of our lands and waters, theextinguishing of species, and a loss of sacred connection to the earth, we look toemerging stories. In them we find the timeless connections between ecology, culture,and spirituality." Explore the publication here
Linking Justice and Peace in the LectionaryThe following homily resources are from theConference of Major Superiors of Men (CMSM).The Passionist JPIC office collaborates withother community JPIC offices and we wouldlove to see other homily resources coming fromthe Passionist charism. Contact the Passionist
JPIC office if you would like to contribute. If you yourself do not give homilies pleaseconsider sharing these resources with a local priest.
Sunday June 10th by Dianne Bergant, CSA
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