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August 2010 Passionist JPIC Update

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• The Passionist JPIC Office will soon send out a mailing with the latest Passionist position guide that is dedicated to the topic of addressing the social impact of globalization on families. This mailing will go out to the members of the Passionist family and we will be posting three blogs that are based on this topic. Visit our resource page for former Passionist Position Guides.
• The July 17^th “Living Simply so Others May Simply Live” Passionist Ecological Retreat with the Sisters of the Cross and Passion went very well. The retreat program along with the Passionist Justice Retreat “The Impact of the Cross in the World Today” are ready to be promoted at retreat houses throughout the country. Please contact the Passionist JPIC Office through this website to request hosting these programs at you retreat center. The Office will soon be working for the third Passionist Retreat Program on Peace and Non-violence.
• The Passionist JPIC Office has an RSS widget so that any website that would like to integrate our blog posts can go ahead and do so within their own website. If you have any questions or if you are interested in doing this with your own website plase contact John Gonzalez to obtain the embed code for the blog feeds. My email can be found above.
• The Passion for Justice Blog has an advocacy update on legislative issues of social concern. We encourage the Passionist family to take the opportunity of the summer congressional recess to locally meet with your legislators and promote these issues for the promotion of justice, peace and the integrity of creation. If you do get an opportunity to meet with your legislator this summer please share your experience by emailing it to John Gonzalez at jdgonzocpp@yahoo.com .
• Visit the Passion for Justice Blog for some great post that share on the social ministries of the Passionist Volunteers International. We also have a couple of ecological posts, and update on Fr. Frechette’s experience in Haiti, and the amazing story of the martyrdom of Fr. Carl Schmidt, CP.    
• The JPIC Office is going to continue working on issues of corporate responsibility through a new relationship with Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment.
• The JPIC office is working with the JustFaith program to develop this program for our Passionist parishes. This program is being organized for the Immaculate Conception Parish in Queens, NY.
• Related to this the JPIC office I still working on the Passionist JPIC Parish binder. We hope to have this done in August.
• The Passionist JPIC Office will develop JPIC themed talks that are also related to annual retreat themes. Any retreat center that would like a JPIC talk related to their theme can contact the JPIC office to receive powerpoint presentations related to their theme.
• The Office will also work on a Passionist Retreat workbook that will offer Retreat Centers programs related to the themes and issues of Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation. We hope to distribute this during the autumn months.
• The Office is working with the Passionist community of the United States to create a blogging community that will promote the number of site bloggers from the different ministerial entities of the Passionist family.