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

2. 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?

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

4. Right Action as Individuals and Community
Empowerment
Individual
Systemic
Charity

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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?

10. 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

11. Fostering Feeling Expressing Celebrating
Hope Confidence Joy

12. 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

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

14. 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?