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During
this Lenten season, our faith and conscience calls us to greater
contemplation
and to reflect upon our lives and actions as individuals, as
communities, and
as a world. We recognize the need to
transform the injustice, unbridled destruction and deep pain that we
live amongst
on this planet. During these next 40
days of the Lenten season we at 8th Day invite you to
reflect on
these questions;
What
am I
doing to create a more just world?
How
am I living out my call to bring about peace?
How
can I be a better member of the
community?
How can we make light in the
darkness?
Finding
answers to these questions may never happen in our life time but as
Oscar
Romero said, “We plant the
seeds that one
day will grow. We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold
future
promise.”
Reflection
with out action will not bring us closer peace or bring light in the darkness. The
Lenten season and the coming of springtime
is a natural time that brings us literally out of the darkness (in the
Northern
Hemisphere) and into the light, breaking open, with new growth and
opportunity.
One of
the strengths of 8th Day Center
for Justice is
that we ask each other these questions everyday. In our conference room
where
we have our weekly staff meetings we have a banner that reminding us,
“How
will
our efforts in this room today, affect the people who are poor, those
who are
marginalized and the whole of the cosmos?”
At 8th
Day work actively to seek the answers and subsequently take action
toward
solutions. We work toward trying to
create a more just world in our daily interactions with each other as
staff, in
our work, within coalitions and in broader community.
We
need your support to continue to ask the hard questions, to continue to
seek out
truth and bring light to the darkness.
By
supporting 8th Day
Center
for Justice, you
can help us make concrete steps to bring light
in the darkness because
reflection without action will not bring us closer peace or bring
light in the darkness.
We invite
you to read on and learn about two of our staff at 8th Day Center
for Justice and their reflections on their personal transformation
process and
how they are working to bring light in the
darkness. We invite you to give
your support and join
us in our work, to pray for peace and justice for all and take action
in your
life!
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