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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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Paulo Freire: A Capacity to Love Through Social Justice

Prayer Service
Paulo Freire reminds us that to live out our vocation to become more fully human, we must engage in creative discernment and ongoing reflection on the importance of dialogue, community, and the...
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Litany for Hispanic Heritage Month

Litany
This litany guides us to pray for immigrants in the U.S. from Latin and South America and for the peoples of Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Bolivia.  It...
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Prayer for Colombia

Prayer
Columbia is striving to move to reconciliation after decades of internal conflict. This prayer asks for blessings on the people of Columbia as they work for a just and peaceful rebuilding of a united...
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Hispanic Heritage Month

Toolbox
This toolbox includes resources, both revised and new, celebrating our sisters and brothers from Central and South America:       Creative Voice: What it Means to Be...
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Clare of Assisi: An Example and Mirror of Contemplative Action

Prayer Service
This prayer service celebrates the life of Saint Clare of Assisi and asks her to “inspire us to be faithful servant leaders as we seek to embrace a Gospel-centered life rooted in compassion and...
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In Remembrance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Prayer
This prayer of remembrance gives us words and images to recall “the skies that rained down fire” and to continue to ask forgiveness for the violence of the first nuclear attacks that took place...
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Manchester Bombing: Another Dark Day

Litany
This litany remembers the victims of the bombing in Manchester, England, on May 21, 2017.  
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One With the Suffering People of Syria

Prayer
We pray for an end to the war in Syria and ask God to give comfort and strength to our sisters and brothers who have suffered for too long.
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Naomi Klein: There Can Be No Justice Without Addressing Climate Change

Prayer Service
This prayer service is based on the words of Naomi Klein, Canadian author, journalist, and filmmaker, known for her climate justice activism and analyses of globalization, neoliberalism, and...
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Rebecca Masika Katsuva: Turning Suffering Into Action

Litany
“Mama Masika” committed her entire life to protecting and raising awareness of rape as a weapon of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This litany calls us to learn from Mama Masika’s...
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One With the Suffering People of Syria

Prayer
We pray for an end to the war in Syria and ask God to give comfort and strength to our sisters and brothers who have suffered for too long.