“However dark things are, goodness always re-emerges and spreads. Each day in our world beauty is born anew” - Pope Francis

Our Question for the Day! How as a school community do we reflect justice and peace in concrete ways to each other and to our students?

Integral to Justice and Peace Right Action as Individuals and Community God Alive and Active in Us Dynamics of the Human Person

Right Action as Individuals and Community Empowerment Individual Systemic Charity

Share an experience of your justice work where you met the need of a person, group, or community. What was the systemic issue driving the need?

God Alive and Active in Us Who is God calling me to be? How is God inviting me into relationship with another? How will you embody God’s vision for the world? What is the impact of suffering on me? How does my faith form my understanding/experience of suffering? How do I participate in the redemptive act of the Paschal mystery? What is the meaning/power of suffering, little death, and resurrection in my life?

Guidance in Justice and Peace Scripture Teaching and Preaching of Pope Francis Principles of Catholic Social Teaching Dominican Calls to Justice Caldwell Dominican Justice Commitments

Risky Business of Gospel Living Pray with one another Invite each other to grow in understanding/experiencing God’s deep, personal, intimate love. Practice living that with each person you meet. Teach each other to look at others with kind eyes

Sharing on God Alive and Active in Us Who is God calling me to be? How is God inviting me into relationship with another? How will you embody God’s vision for the world? What is the impact of suffering on me? How does my faith form my understanding/experience of suffering? How do I participate in the redemptive act of the Paschal mystery? What is the meaning/power of suffering, little death, and resurrection in my life?

Dynamics of the Human Person Justice is a human need! Building capacity for diversity and differences Increasing ability to hold unfairness and suffering in our awareness Modulating our fear and shame in relationships Honing skills for working through trauma responses moving through our bodies in each and every moment

Fostering Feeling Expressing Celebrating Hope Confidence Joy

and describe a new awareness or question. Choose one statement and describe a new awareness or question. Justice is a human need! Building capacity for diversity and differences Increasing ability to hold unfairness and suffering in our awareness Modulating our fear and shame in relationships Honing skills for working through trauma responses moving through our bodies in each and every moment

Communities of Justice and Peace Right Action as Individuals and Community God Alive and Active in Us Dynamics of the Human Person

Reflection Question for Contemplative Space To what am I drawn? From what do I distance myself? What do I want to bring with me into the year? How might I do that? What is the strength and developmental need in my school community?