Posts Tagged ‘solidarity’
Update from Fr. Rick Frechette, CP from Haiti
Two networks have discovered the important work of Fr. Rick Frechette, C.P. in the midst of the devastation of the earthquake in Haiti. They each point to the very touching reality of his care for children. It is no accident that he is there. On Friday January 15 Fr. Rick sent this note explaining his current presence ... Read more
In Passion for Justice | Tagged Fr. Rick Frechette, Haiti, Passionist, solidarity
Our World, Our Future: Solidarity in Vietnam
The Australian Passionist community has a young adult immersion pilgrimage that went to the Philippins and Vietnam. Recently we shared one of the young adult experiences in the Philippins. This week, fellow pilgrim Justin Wenham will share on his experience in Vietnam from an article that he wrote to his school magazine: At times, all of us have difficulty ... Read more
In Passion for Justice | Tagged Australia, immersion pilgrimage, Passionist, solidarity, Vietnam
Our World, Our Future: (Solidarity in the Philippines)
The Australian Passionist Community offers a school pilgrimage to the communities and ministries in the Philippines and Vietnam. The following reflection comes from Justin Wenham who is a student at the Christian Brothers College (CBC) in Adelaide, Australia. As the reflecting student explains: “The purpose of the Pilgrimage is to explore and share how local people experience injustice ... Read more
Thanksgiving reflection for the Passionist social ministries in Asia
Last week the Passionist communities in Asia sent their superiors and delegates to India to discuss a matter of regional governance for the Religious community. At an international level the Passionist community is going through a process of reconfiguration. This reconfiguration aims to reorganize the community in adapting to the challenges of globalization and to ... Read more
United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development, New York, June 24-26, 2009
By Fr. Kevin Dance, CP When the governments of the world met in Doha, Qatar in December 2008 to review progress made in the area of financing for development, the first rumblings of financial chaos could be felt. It was decided that the spreading financial and economic global crisis called for a follow up conference to ... Read more
XX Sunday of Ordinary Time
Readings: Proverbs 9:1-6 Ephesians 5:15-20 John 6:51-58 Thoughts for Your Consideration: by Hugo Esparza, CP This week we are invited to attend God’s Feast. This should give us all a great sense of honor in again being reminded that God continues to call us into a mystical loving relationship with him. A relationship that will give us an eternal meaning ... Read more
XIX Sunday In Ordinary Time
Readings: 1 Kings 19:4-8 Ephesians 4:30—5:2 John 6:41-51 Thoughts For Your Consideration: by Hugo Esparza, CP During one of the hardest nights of my work with taxi-drivers last year, I sat discouraged, hopeless and exhausted with my team of organizers. The group of primarily East-African and Middle-Eastern, Muslim, Cab-drivers had decided to go on strike a few days before. The ... Read more
XVIII Sunday of Ordinary Time
Readings: Exodus 16: 2-4; 12-15 Ephesians 4:17, 20-24 John 6: 24-35 Thoughts for your consideration: by John Gonzalez “Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.” This is how Jesus responded to the people who searched him out after the feeding of the multitude ... Read more
Analyzing the Economic Stimulus based on the Pope’s encyclical
Before I continue reflecting on the Pope’s recent social encyclical I would like to offer a personal comment on the economic stimulus. One of the core points of the Pope’s economic message is that business as usual with regards to the global economic activity cannot continue. In the last blog reflection I shared the Catholic ... Read more
XII Sunday of Ordinary Time
Readings: Job 38:1, 8-11 2 Cor. 5:14-17 Mark 4:35-41 Thoughts for your Consideration: The sea is an awesome image that reveals the great power of creation. On the one hand the sea is turbulent and destructive. Yet the sea is also life-giving and calming. The early apostles who lived around the Sea of Galilee were very much aware of this ... Read more
In Lectionary Reflections | Tagged befriending the earth, Corinthians, Integrity of Creation, Jesus, Job, Mark, New Cosmology, Ocean, Paul, Sea, solidarity, Tom Berry