November 2017: Fostering a Culture of Peace: Living Simply

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

Fostering a Culture of Peace Through Dialogue

Teaching is a journey, like the journey toward Emmaus, and the spirituality of this vocation requires sensitivity and attention as teachers accompany their students toward knowledge and...
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Pope Francis: A World Without Nuclear Weapons

Pope Francis has called the global community to “commit ourselves to a world without nuclear weapons.” To view the artistic reflection based on Pope Francis’ words, click here:...
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Catholic Social Thought and Disarmament

Five recent Popes have forcefully spoken out on the nuclear buildup for the last fifty years; this recourse reviews their concerns and focuses on Pope Francis’ most recent in-depth...
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CST and SDGs: Affordable and Clean Energy

As Pope Francis has declared, we must move from fossil fuels to clean energy, ensuring that those in poverty have access to clean and sustainable energy for authentic human development.
Prayer Service

Majora Carter: Addressing Poverty through Environmental Justice and Community Restoration

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

Litany for Those Who Suffer from Mental Distress

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.
Toolbox

Disarmament

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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