Section outline
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Each of us is called to promote Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation (JPIC): starting with ourselves, then to our immediate surroundings and neighbours, and finally to the rest of the world - in areas accessible through agencies represented here. The operative word is justice - justice should be made reality in the form of Social, Economic, Environmental justice, as a whole. Often, the social and/or economic justice is emphasized while neglecting the environment.
We are called to pray, study and work for all justice issues. Prayer, study and hands-on work can help us confront complex issues like climate change, mining, fair trade, human trafficking, addiction crisis, divesture of fossil fuels, protecting watersheds, confronting environmental racism and classism, as well as many money and faith issues. Please browse the resources listed below to learn more about JPIC.
Below is resources and group discussions about Extreme Poverty and World Trade -
At the start of the 21st century, 1.2 million people, mostly women, lived in extreme poverty. Every day more than 50, 000 people die from causes linked to poverty. Poverty is not caused by nature but by politics and its eradication must be through political action especially in terms of international aid, world trade, international debt and protection of social programs.
Objective: To be aware of, and participate in, actions to eradicate world poverty.
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1. Take the Preliminary Focus Quiz
2. Explore the Franciscan's International Website
3. Download the Franciscan's International Position Paper and Read Sections A and B.
4. Participate in the Discussion Forum using the Focus Questions Provided.
5. Know that love that values the dignity of all individuals comes from God! -
1. Take the Preliminary Focus Question Survey
2. Read remainder of FI Postion Paper (Sections C to I)
3. Download summary slide set of FI Position Paper (Sections C to I)
4. Download and review the reflection on Scotus and Human Rights
5. Participate in the discussion forum using the focus questions provided.
6. Print out summary slide set and share with your Fraternity
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1. Read Luke 10:25 - 37: The Good Samaritan
2. Make Choices in Focus Questions
3. Read "Are these our Neighbors?" Saskatoon Archdiocese
4. Read Catechism of the Catholic Church 2439, 2442, 2423, 2424
5. Pray Francisan's International Way of the Cross
6. Let Me Make a Difference: Fair Trade Coffee
7. Participate in the Discussion Forum for this Topic
8. Take some Fair Trade Coffee to your next Fraternity Meeting and Pray The FI Way of the Cross. Pax et Bonum! -
1. Read Scripture Selections
2. Make Choices in Focus Questions 3. Add at least ONE item to the Wiki on the 3 Scriptures
4. Use link to Compendium of Social Doctrine of the Church
a. Read Man Poverty and Riches and Wealth Exists to be shared: CSDC 323 - 329
b. Read Social doctrine and lay associations CSDC 549 - 550
c. If you have difficulty finding these on line, please email me and I will help!
5. Discussion Forum: The 3 Scriptures and Compendium of Social Doctrine
6. Discuss your discoveries at your next Fraternity Meeting. Pax et Bonum!
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New! Compendium Readings in .pdf.
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1. Read Matthew 12:1 - 8
2. Post a Short Reflection on Matthew 12:1 -8 in Reflection Forum
3. Download and Read Development and Peace: Hunger and Pursuit of Profit Pages 1 - 10
4. Post at least one answer in the Question-Answer Forum on Hunger and Profit.
5. Print the Hunger and Pursuit of Profit document and share with others who do not have computer access!-
No One to Till the Ground:
"These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up--for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no one to till the ground..." Genesis 2:4-5 -
5. Print out Development and Peace: Hunger and the Pursuit of Profit and share with SFO members who do not have a computer.
Pax et Bonum!