Saturday, 23 April 2016

Helping out

Back in the year 2000, the start of the new millennium, Catholics were encouraged to pledge and promise to follow these guidelines:
Pray regularly for greater justice and peace.
Learn more about Catholic social teaching and its call to protect human life, stand with the poor, and care for creation.
Reach across boundaries of religion, race, ethnicity, gender and disabling conditions.
Live justly in family life, school, work, the marketplace, and the political arena.
Serve those who are poor and vulnerable, sharing more time and talent.
Give more generously to those in need at home and abroad.
Advocate for public policies that protect human life, promote human dignity, preserve God's creation and build peace.
Encourage others to work for greater charity, justice and peace.

These guidelines are just as important now, 16 years later, than they were in 2000. Let us hope and pray that we can continue living these guidelines, and become more conscious of the needs around us, especially with the ongoing recent issues of immigration and terrorism, which were not major problems 16 years ago.


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