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Social Justice and Peace Commission
Purpose: To strive to eliminate human suffering and work to eliminate the causes of social problems.
Responsibilities:
- 1. Provide assistance to those who are poor, elderly, shut-in, lonely and/or bereaved.
- 2. Educate parishioners on local, state, national and world social justice issues
- 3. Foster social legislation by researching issues and disseminating information on proposed legislation
Do you have a hour or two to spare each week? What about once or twice a month? There are many people of our parish who are unable to attend church but who would perhaps like to have someone from the church visit them once or twice a month. If this is a ministry you would be interested in, please contact the Social Justice and Peace Commission for more information. Call Lynette at 532-6713. If there is no answer, leave a message.
The first meeting of the fall for the Social Justice and Peace Commission will take place on September 17, 2010 after the 8 am Mass. It will be held upstairs in the Parish Center. All members are encouraged to attend.
Social Justice and Peace Commission will review the DVD and curriculum, In the footsteps of Jesus: Catholic Social Teaching at Work Today, published by USCCB over two sessions. These will be held on September 25th and October 16th in the Parish Center Library from 9-12 am. Anyone interested is invited to join us!
Anyone wishing to carpool from Houlton should contact Lynette at 532-6713
The Peace Prayer
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is error, the truth;
Where there is doubt, the faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
Grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled, as to console;
To be understood, as to understand;
To be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
Anyone interested in serving on the Social Justice and Peace Commission,
please contact Lynette Dobbs at 532-6713 or the church office at 532-2871.
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Social, Justice, & Peace
