Majora Carter: Addressing Poverty through Environmental Justice and Community Restoration

Prayer Service
We offer this prayer service which offers Majora Carter as model for participation in our communities through understanding the systems and structures that shape these communities; we are called to...
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Signs of Our Times: Being Living Signs of Hope in Times of Need

We invite you to use this litany to reflect on our common vocation to be living signs of hope, with deeds and with words, as a response to the darkness in our society and in the world.  

Litany for Those Who Suffer from Mental Distress

Litany
We pray that we may always recognize that those with mental health problems are made in the image of God and that we may always display respect as well as compassion toward them.

And St. Francis Preached to the Birds

From the perspective of St. Francis of Assisi and Pope Francis, this prayer reflects on the sacred nature of every animate being in all eco-systems, all interconnected in the web of God's Creation.

Disarmament

Toolbox
This toolbox includes resources, both revised and new, on the topic of disarmament and the elimination of nuclear weapons.

World Homeless Day

This insert focuses on the importance of home for human flourishing and offers Catholic social thought on homelessness, with specific recommendations from the US Catholic Bishops on programs that...
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Step

Step provides what Pope Francis would call a moving encounter with the staff and students at the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women; their daily struggles, their determination, their hope,...
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October 2017: Fostering a Culture of Peace Through Dialogue

This month’s calendar offers daily reflections and actions to celebrate EFJ’s theme for the month of October 2017: Fostering a Culture of Peace Through Dialogue.

Prayer for Dreamers

Prayer
We pray for all the young people impacted by DACA, for those who need to open their hearts to them, and we pray finally for ourselves, that we may be a voice for the dispossessed. 

Fostering a Culture of Peace: Embracing the “Us”

Creative Voice Meghan Clark, Ph.D., writes, “Fostering a culture of peace necessarily begins with embracing our one human family, embracing the us.” This reflection on global solidarity leads us...
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Fostering a Culture of Peace: Embracing the "Us"

This photo reflection is accompanied by the song A Place Called Home, performed by David Haas, Marty Haugen, and Michael Joncas. To view the artistic reflection, click here: http://bit.ly/2wpVz7b.

CST and SDGs: Life On Land

This reflection focuses on Goal 15 of the Sustainable Development Goals: to conserve and restore the use of ecosystems such as forests, wetlands, drylands, and mountains. Reflection questions, steps...
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