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God Food of the Poor
(from workers in a community soup kitchen, Lima, Peru)
God, food of the poor;
Christ, our bread,
give us a taste of the tender bread from your
creation’s table; bread newly taken from your heart’s
oven, food that comforts and
nourishes us.
A loaf of community that makes us human, joined hand
in hand, working and sharing.
A warm loaf that makes us a family;
Sacrament of your body,
your wounded people.
From Living God’s
Justice
Palestine:
Tonight!
Crossing the Line:
Chris Brown Speaks of his Experience as a Christian Peacemaker in
Occupied Palestine 7:00 PM St.
Joseph the Worker
Church
1640 Addison St.,Berkeley Free
Save
the date: Aug. 24-25 for Friends of Sabeel Conference in Berkeley Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: Voices We Need To
Hear http://www.fosna.org/conferences_and_trips/index.html
Immigration
Immigration Reform: Don’t stop
now!
There
is a new action alert at Justice
for Immigrants, the US Bishop’s campaign for immigration
reform. The Senate returns from recess and will be voting on amendments this
week. Key issues include family reunification and a more humane temporary
worker policy. The bishops are committed to working on this bill to add
important amendments.
Your
voice is needed as this process continues: Click now: http://www.justiceforimmigrants.org/action.html
Please share this action alert with others.
Corpus Christi Sunday June 10
Across
the state, dioceses are celebrating Corpus
Christi and praying for just immigration reform: Resources
for the feast day are on: www.cacatholic.org
Additional
resources for a procession with specific references to immigrants are
available in English and Spanish from this office. Please contact mdoyle@oakdiocese.org.
Prayers of Intercession for Corpus Christi:
-For those who suffer fear and exclusion, loneliness
and poverty, especially those immigrants in our midst, may we remember that
we are all one body in Christ.
-For those in public office that they may seek just
policies locally and globally, that treat all with human dignity.
-In thanksgiving for the rich diversity of our
communities and church, for the many gifts we share at this table, for the
mission we have as one family in Christ.
Dreams Across America
Tour: Immigrant workers and friends will travel across
American on a train tour June 13-20 ending in Washington,DC.
You can follow the tour, watch videos, and add your family story of
immigration to the website. A great way to learn the stories of immigrants
who come seeking to be part of the American Dream. www.dreamsacrossamericaonline.org
View Strangers no Longer online!!!
http://www.archchicago.org/departments/peace_and_justice/immigration.shtm
Scroll
all the way down and view the web version.
Cardinal Mahoney gave the Templeton
lecture at USC on May 8.
The Challenge of “We the People” ina Post 9/11
World: Immigration, the American Economy, and the Constitution.
http://www.la-archdiocese.org/news/story.php?newsid=884
Make Aid Work
Banners
will be raised at the Vatican June 3-9 for
the general assembly of Caritas International (international organization of
Catholic aid and development groups) meeting during the G-8 summit.
http://www.caritas.org/jumpCh.asp?idChannel=1444
Vatican
to install solar panels:
The
Vatican
plans to place solar panels next year on top of the Paul VI audience hall,
creating enough electricity to heat, cool and light the entire building
year-round. Even though Vatican
City State
is not a signatory of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding international
environmental pact to cut greenhouse gases, it is trying to reduce the amount
of carbon dioxide it contributes to the atmosphere through energy use from
the burning fossil fuels. The Vatican is also considering the
installation of solar panels on other buildings. For a complete article
from Catholic News Service, visit
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0702971.htm
For more about climate change and Catholic thought, visit http://www.ncrlc.com/global_climate_change.html
What is your parish doing to reduce
energy use?
Summer Reading/Viewing:
Do
you have books, movies to suggest? Email suggestions to share to
mdoyle@oakdiocese.org
From What Catholics
Should know about Solidarity
“The joys and hopes, the grief and anguish of the
people of our time, especially of those who are poor or afflicted, are the
joys and hopes, the grief and anguish of the followers of Christ as
well….That is why they cherish a feeling of deep solidarity with the
human race and its history” (The Church in the Modern World, #1).
Solidarity includes compassion, but it is more. Solidarity
is not only a spontaneous movement of the heart that responds immediately,
but also a decision to take action to join with, to form community with,
those who are suffering. Solidarity takes place when a person or community
not only sees a need and acts, but commits to follow up, to endeavor to see
that action is taken to improve the other’s situation for the long run.
Solidarity also includes a kind of mutuality that goes
both ways in respect and accountability when the relationship grows.
Solidarity becomes a two-way process because it becomes a relationship with
both sides giving and receiving. Those who reach out to offer help quickly
begin to realize that their own humanity is being fostered in new ways. Those
who are receiving assistance discover that they bring gifts to the
relationship which the others would be otherwise lacking. Read
this June 2007 Catholic Update at
http://www.americancatholic.org/Newsletters/CU/ac0607.asp
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