Lectionary Reflection

Easter Vigil – Holy Saturday [a] April 15, 2017

Easter Vigil – Holy Saturday April 15, 2017   In his encyclical Laudato Si’, Pope Francis calls for urgent action to address environmental degradation and the social injustices...
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Prayer

Prayer for the Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Populorum Progressio

This prayer commemorates the 50th Anniversary of Populorum Progressio in 2017, and uses words and phrases from Pope Paul VI’s seminal encyclical originally published on March 26, 1967.
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Creative Voice

Pope Francis’s 2017 Lenten Message

This artistic reflection is based on the text of Pope Francis’s 2017 Lenten Message:  “The Word is a gift. Other persons are a gift.” Pope Francis focuses his Lenten message on the story of...
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Reflection

Reflection: CST and SDGs: Climate Action

Both the Sustainable Development Goals and Catholic social teaching stress the importance of caring for the natural environment and ending human-caused climate change. In addition to the reflection,...
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Reflection

Art Activism: Connecting Art and Social Justice

This comprehensive resource highlights historic movements that used art to create social change, identifies current social justice art movements, provides reflection questions and a prayer, and...
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Litany

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Call to Carry the Gospel of Freedom

This three-page litany includes quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr. and calls on each of us to be nonviolent agents of change in today’s world. Commemorate Black History Month in your classroom,...
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Prayer

Prayer for Holy Thursday (English and Spanish)

Creative Voice Dr. Megan McKenna echoes the humility and gratitude celebrated on Holy Thursday with this prayer.
Prayer

Earth Day Prayer, 2017

Inspired by the 2017 Earth Day theme, “Environmental and Climate Literacy,” this prayer calls us to an ecological conversion rooted in respect and knowledge of our complex and sacred common...
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Prayer

Peace to Our Earth

This prayer for the natural environment is based on the line from Pope Francis’s 2013 Lenten Message, “Peace to our earth.”
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Prayer

And They Danced Before the Lord

International Dance Day is celebrated annually on April 29. This prayer recalls dancing in Scripture and celebrates the harmony that dancing brings to both body and soul.
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Prayer

Arts and Justice Prayer

In celebration of the arts, we pray that, out of art, we might create a more just and beautiful world.

Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures tells the remarkable story of three African American women who played a significant role in the NASA launch of John Glenn, the first person to orbit the earth. This resource includes a...
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