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Peacemaking Ideas

  • Have a special supper with your family and talk about places in the world where peace is needed.
  • End each family dinner with a prayer for peace around the world.
  • Send a letter to your member of Congress about an issue related to world peace.
  • Spend an hour or two at a local shelter, soup kitchen, etc., that directly serves needy persons.
  • Sit down with your children and ask for their ideas about how they—and you—can be peacemakers.
  • Pledge ideas from the U.S. Catholic Bishops' 1999 document "Everyday Christianity" (see box below).

 

    Ideas From the U.S. Catholic Bishops' "Everyday Christianity"
     (the Jubilee Pledge
    For Charity, Justice and Peace)

    As disciples of Jesus in the new millennium, I/we pledge to:

    PRAY regularly for 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.

    Read Catholic Update's condensed version of "Everyday Christianity"

 

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