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June 15, 2007
In this issue:
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State Budget
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Fall JustFaith
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Global update
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Events
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Summer reading
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Before I go: what do you need?
Millennium Development Goals:
1.
Eradicate extreme hunger and
poverty
2.
Achieve universal primary
education
3.
Promote gender equality and
empower women
4.
Reduce child mortality
5.
Improve maternal health
6.
Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and
other diseases
7.
Ensure environmental
sustainability
8.
Develop a global partnership for
development
Catholic Campaign Against Global
Poverty
Millennium Promise
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An eye for an eye, makes the whole world
blind… Mahatma Ghandi
Seek peace and pursue it… 1 Peter
3:11
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most
Merciful:
God you are peace and peace is from you.
Please let us live in peace… prayer
from Palestine.
State Budget
CCC
does a review of the May revise of the state budget:
http://www.cacatholic.org/budgetprimer.html
California
Budget Project
www.Cbp.org
JustFaith is
alive and well in the diocese:
These
groups are committed to or considering programs this fall, contacts’
names are noted. When final decisions are made we will post all the contact
info.
JustFaith groups:
- St. John Vianney, Walnut Creek,
Nora Petersen,
- St.
Michael Livermore, Debra Post or Joanne Angvick
- Newman Hall/ Holy Spirit
(Possible, not confirmed, may do Just Matters)
- St. Mary Magdalen, Berkeley Linda
Tong, Lisa Cortez-Holmes
- St. Catherine of Siena (group is
seeking members) Marguerite Chatigny
- Christ the King, Pleasant Hill
Gwen Watson
If you would like to join a group but can’t
get a large enough group going in your parish, these groups would welcome people
from other parishes.
JustMatters (new: shorter, issue oriented program)
Corpus Christi
Piedmont ( possible) Gaby Miller
St.
Isidore/St Joan of Arc, Danville
Pat Black/Janet Glubetich
Global Issues:
The Jubilee Act has been introduced:
take action
http://www.jubileeusa.org/jubilee-act.html
Holy Land: We pray for an end to the violence in Palestine which
threatens so many innocent civilians. Below is an account from Najwa, a
friend of CRS Gaza staff, on the aerial
bombings in Gaza,
21 May 2007
I always wonder about the capacity
of humans to endure traumatic events: some people say when you are used to a
certain situation your reactions to this situation will stay the same.
However, for me they are not the same-- and they won’t be the same. I
am so exhausted, physically, mentally and spiritually that I am afraid my
body as well as my heart won’t take it anymore. After an awful night
with the sound of the apaches and its missiles I realized that I can’t
take it anymore. I am a human being who only seeks to have the minimum: a
normal life for my kids and myself. Yesterday Nusairat camp was the scene for
the Israeli apaches. Three missiles hit after midnight in the area where I
live. I was asking my self which is more painful: to hear the hissing of the
missile before it hits its target or your doubts about where it is going to
hit, whether you are the target, your family, your neighbor or your house.
I had very difficult moments, I
felt that my heart will stop beating. I was torn between going to check on my
two boys, or trying to protect my eight month old baby, or hiding in the arms
of my husband in a way to comfort my self. My husband tried his best to
comfort me, saying that I have to get used to this situation, and that it is
not new to us as Palestinians. But for God’s sake I can’t, I
can’t act and live with frequent doubts of when my turn will be, I
can’t live with visions every time I try to close my eyes to get some
sleep: Visions of my kids killed, or my house destroyed. I know that I have
to believe in Allah, and to believe that I will experience every thing that
Allah chooses for me, but I am also a human being, who can only take so much.
I can’t live in this way; the stressful life I lived drained me as a
mother, and as a normal person. I either have no room kept for my children to
deal with them normally, nor for any normal feeling of stability in my life.
I wonder if the Israelis know
that.
From CRS campus resources:
Our
friends at the Africa Faith & Justice Network just released a great
new resource called Get Your Hands
Dirty For Africa. You'll find mobilizing
materials on child soldiers, water, AIDS etc...
Movie Night!
Spend
an enjoyable evening viewing the thought-provoking documentary "Why We
Fight" Friday, June 22 at 7:00 PM at Stack Hall, Our Lady of Grace
Church, 3433 Somerset Avenue,
Castro Valley. Pizza, salad, and beverages
will be provided. All are welcome. The hall is wheelchair accessible.
The
award winning, 98 minute, 2005 film explores the relevance of President
Eisenhower's 1961 warnings about the influence of the military-industrial
complex to today's events. For more information call 538-6071 or 733-9880.
Livermore:
save the date:
August
6 7:30 am In the Shadow of the Bomb reflections and action on the
anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.
Livermore
Lab
Summer reading
from
the Environmental Defense Fund:
http://environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?contentID=6470
Regular and
interesting news, daily:
www.catholicmediareport.org If
you sign up for this (top left corner of the page) you get a daily digest of
interesting news and opinion.
Finally:
As I prepare for the transition from my job, I am leaving
certain resources in the office and online. Tell me: what materials,
information, resources would you find helpful?
Please
email or call: mdoyle@oakdiocese.org
510-267-8379
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