Some fresh ideas on how to make the criminal justice system work better, by the person who directs the Mennonite Central Commitee U.S. Office of Criminal Justice.
Taken form Called to Restore the Fabric of Human Community by Dorothy McRae-McMahon. A worship guide supporting campaigning for the Global Week of Action on trade in April 2005.
RESISTANCE AND HOPE: CASTING FIRE was used at the "Just Trade Agreements? Churches in North America Discuss Globalization" consultation held in Stony Point, New York, 11-14 January 2004.
Pax Christi, together with the National Justice and Peace Network and CAFOD have invited people to fast and pray every Friday for peace in Iraq and the Middle East.
Blessed are you peacemakers,
who say no to war as a means to peace.
Blessed are you peacemakers,
who are committed to disarm weapons of mass destruction.
Blessed are you peacemakers,
A Litany of Gratitude from Web of Creation (Director Dr David Rhoads)
Leader:
We live in all things
All things live in us
Response: We rejoice in all life.
Leader:
We live by the sun
Litany of Commitment
Leader: As we seek to relax our grip so that the earth, our fragile sister, might rest from our labors, help us to see our world more vividly than we have done in the past.
A Litany for Healing - From the Web of Creation (Director Dr. David Rhoads)
Leader:
To bring new life to the land
To restore the waters
To refresh the air