Transfiguration Peace & Justice Ministries

11/20/2016

UPCOMING SPEAKER - FR. GREG BOYD, HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES.
Location: Church of the Assumption, Fairport
Date & Time: Nov. 30 @ 7:30 pm

Based in Los Angeles, Homeboy Industries provides hope, training, and support to formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated men and women allowing them to redirect their lives and become contributing members of our community. Full-time employment is offered for more than 200 men and women at a time through an 18-month program that helps them re-identify who they are in the world, offers job training so they can move on from Homeboy Industries and become contributing members of the community - knowing they count.

For more information, go to: www.homeboyindustries.org.

10/09/2016

Rural & Migrant Ministry’s 2016 Harvesting Justice Symposium and Dinner will be held on Thursday, Oct. 27 at Temple B'rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Avenue Rochester, NY 14618.

4:00—6:00: The Symposium, In Their Shoes, will celebrate women farmworkers in New York State as they share personal stories about the unique challenges they face, including health, motherhood, and abuse.

6:00-6:30: Silent auction, refreshments and wine. Harvesting Justice Dinner

6:30 - 8:30pm: Catholic Family Center’s Marv Mich, will receive the George Exley-Stiegler Award.

Learn more or purchase tickets at http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event? llr=4bnmc6bab&oeidk=a07ed9twpv29ae10226

09/10/2016

Great news clip about our friend, Sister Grace Miller. Well-deserved, Sister Grace!

http://www.whec.com/news/sister-grace-miller-modern-day-mother-teresa/4256131/?cat=565

08/30/2016

Nazareth College is hosting two nights of conversations on global migration with Sr. Norma Pimental, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley. Given the focus on immigration and the plight of the Syrian refugees, these promise to be spiritually stimulating events.

THE HUMAN FACE OF MIGRATION: LEARNING MERCY AT THE BORDER
September 22, 7 p.m.
Forum, Otto A. Shults Community Center

NURTURING A CULTURE OF CARING
September 23, 1:30 p.m.
Linehan Chapel, Golisano Academic Center

07/18/2016

CATHOLICS & CLIMATE CHANGE

A year after Pope Francis released his encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si’, Catholic adults in the United States are generally more likely to be concerned about climate change than other Christians according to a new survey conducted by CARA.

Catholics are also more likely than other adults to believe they have a moral responsibility to personally do what they can to combat climate change according to results from the poll conducted May 16 and May 26, 2016.

07/15/2016

"That's what we must pray for, each of us: a new heart. Not a heart of stone, but a heart open to the fears and hopes and challenges of our fellow citizens. That's what we've seen in Dallas these past few days. That's what we must sustain."

--President Obama, Dallas Memorial Service

07/15/2016

NONVIOLENCE TRAINING

From the Gandhi Institute: Gandhi Institute Nonviolence Intensive Monday-Wednesday, August 8-10, from 10 am-5 pm each day@ Rochester Friends Meetinghouse (84 Scio Street).

This Intensive will be an introduction to different forms of applied nonviolence, with time to practice using these techniques for real life situations. These forms of nonviolence are proactive ways to work with conflict and challenging situations.

During the workshop, participants will learn: How to shift conflicts by listening for underlying values of opposing parties, how to navigate the world with self-reflection upon one's rank and privilege, how to reconnect to energy for social change, in spite of personal and societal challenges and feelings of burn out, how to mediate personal conflicts using Restorative Questions.

Nutritious snacks will be provided each day; please pack your own lunch.

Registration is required due to limited spots! Please visit this link: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ecm1yv1x15988e26&llr=u6l5icdab

07/03/2016

"To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

- Nelson Mandela

06/30/2016

FAST FACTS ABOUT POVERTY IN ROCHESTER (from Catholic Family Center)

• The City of Rochester has the highest rate of child poverty (50.1%), the highest rate of extreme poverty and second highest poverty rate in the nation.

• The fastest growing segment of the population facing poverty is in the suburbs. In the Monroe County suburbs, more than 41,000 people live in poverty.

• In the City of Rochester more than half of our children live in poverty.

Poverty is defined by the US government as less than $24,250 annual income for a family of four.

For more info, visit: https://www.cfcrochester.org

Catholic Family Center partners with people – especially the vulnerable and those facing poverty – to help them achieve their full human potential. A division of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Rochester, CFC offers compassionate and comprehensive services to families and individuals in need ac...

06/22/2016

"Today in many places we hear a call for greater security. But until exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples are reversed, it will be impossible to eliminate violence."

- Evangelii Gaudium ("The Joy of the Gospel"), Pope Francis

06/20/2016

Sharing a prayer that Ruth Marchetti at Catholic Family Center offered in her weekly Salt & Light newsletter:

UNITED TOGETHER: PRAYER AFTER ORLANDO

Christ, who wept over a city,
We are in deepest despair,
As we weep over the dead and injured in Orlando.
In anguish, we recognize the blood stains of hatred, We hear the sounds of fear, the echoes of gun shots--
Once again, once again.

Christ, who came to bring us peace,
We turn to you in overwhelming sorrow.
How can we end this nightmare of violence,
How can we build a world of inclusion, of solidarity? Give us the grace to reflect deeply
And to work ceaselessly to heal the hearts,
To stop the guns, to cherish all God's children.

Christ, who endured violent suffering to bring us Light,
We pray for the dead, may they rest in peace.
We pray for the wounded, may they find healing. We pray for our nation, may we end the hate.
We pray for our global family, may we learn we are one. Amen.

--By Jane Deren, Ph.D.