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April 2018: Fostering a Culture of Peace by Caring for Creation

Calendar
This month’s calendar offers daily reflections and actions to celebrate EFJ’s theme for the month of March 2018: Fostering a Culture of Peace by Caring for Creation.  
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Prayer for Students Against Gun Violence

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We ask God to bless the students who are working for the end to violence in schools and in all communities; this prayer holds up their vision, their hope, and their passion for justice.  
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Choosing the Path of Peace: Remembering All Those Who Lost Their Lives to Gun Violence

Prayer
We join in the mourning of the victims of the most recent mass shooting and recommit ourselves to the path of nonviolence and peace.  
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One Woman’s Courage to Break the Silence Surrounding Violence against Women

Creative Voice
This interview with Catherine Teresa Harris, One Woman’s Courage to Break the Silence Surrounding Violence against Women, provides moving first-person testimony from a brave woman who has been on a...
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A Journey of Healing and Reconciliation Through Restorative Justice

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Education for Justice's 2018 Lenten Reflections are offered by the Catholic Mobilizing Network, a national Catholic organization working to end the death penalty and promote restorative justice....
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Women in Solidarity for the Common Good

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The reflection on Women in Solidarity for the Common Good explores how values of Catholic social teaching are reflected in recent women’s joint efforts to create a more just culture for all women,...
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Women in our Midst: Promoting the Right to Dignity, Truth, and Justice

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This litany celebrates courageous women who are defending the human rights of the oppressed in countries around the world (March 24 is the International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning...
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A Psalm of Water

Prayer
In celebration of World Water Day on March 22, this poetic prayer sings a song to God in gratitude for the gift of water.  
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Prayer to End Harassment

Prayer
The Prayer to End Harassment reminds us we are all diminished when any one is disrespected, harassed, verbally or physically abused but we can all become part of the healing of victims and the...
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Prayer for Women Activists

Prayer
This prayer holds up the community of women activists who use their words to defend the oppressed, marginalized, and forgotten among us.  
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The Right to Home: Rachel Corrie

Prayer
In this prayer, we mourn all those unjustly losing their homes in the occupied territories in Israel, and we remember Rachel Corrie, who put her life on the line as she stood firmly for their...
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As the cross sits behind the bushes that appear as darkness, right before the sun goes down. Remind yourself of the darkness Jesus embraced in order to find his eternal glory.

Lenten Journey to Easter

Prayer
We pray the Lenten Journey to Easter as we walk with so many suffering in the world today, with the seemingly impossible Resurrection calling us forward from the Cross toward an Easter dawning of...
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