St. Louis University

This website offers many different perspectives on the Sunday readings.  One of the perspectives offered is “The Perspective of Justice.”  Select the Sunday from the home page, select “Spirituality for Sunday” and then “The Perspective of Justice.”

Center of Concern

The Center of Concern offers reflections on the Sunday readings from a justice perspective.  The resource also offers questions for faith sharing groups.

Peace Connections

This website has peace and justice reflections for the Sunday readings for all three cycles.  The documents are available in Microsoft Word or pdf format.

8^th Day Center for Justice

The 8^th Day Center offers a downloadable guide for reflection “Toward a Spirituality of Justice.”

The Web of the Cross

This website provides a link to a website about a social issue to form a global way of the cross. Adults for personal reflection.

This is just one of the many resources from the Education for Justice website

This poetic reflection is by Joseph Donders and focuses on the meaning of Ash Wednesday and Lent.  It is from the Education for Justice website.

This handout includes many practical ways to cut down on consumerism and to make more just shopping decisions. A companion piece is one which lists organizations concern themselves with sweatshops and suggestions for just shopping.  Both are from the Education for Justice website. This website is available by subscription and well worth the cost.

Stories Converse

This is  weekly faith sharing material with solid, scholarly exegesis and reflection questions for a small group or for individual reflection.  The material is written from the perspective that our faith is alive, vibrant and growing.  As with any living thing, we must nurture and continue to develop our faith in order for it to thrive. We also believe that our faith is to be lived, that being people of faith requires an active response and a structuring of our lives to reflect the faith we profess. There is a small fee for the service.

This resource from the Bread for the World website offers three reflections using texts from the prophets and pictures and situations of poor people in our world today.  The reflections are suitable for discussion or private reflection.  There are discussion questions included.

Bread for the World has several prayer and reflection resources based on the Millennium Development Goals. These prayer resources come as word documents so they can be adapted.

A Theological Reflection on MDG and the Season of Advent

To the Least of These Do Justice

An Advent Bidding Prayer

Advent Evening Prayer

Ave Maria Press has a page of downloads.  Included on this page is a four-part series on Pope Benedict's encyclical Deus Caritas Est (suitable for faith sharing) and a series of Advent reflections on Dorothy Day.

This group of nuns offers a four step School of Prayer which includes a global dimension.

CAFOD (Catholic Organization for Overseas Development)

Their worship resources includes prayers, liturgies and services, quotes and reflections, Mass talks, biblical texts and even some things for RCIA and Confirmation.

CAFOD (Catholic Agency for Overseas Development) has a long list of prayer resources including the church calendar, as well as prayers relating to peace, debt, trade, HIV and AIDS, poverty, prayers for change, the environment, and prayers about hope.

Mennonite Central Committee

These peace studies are meant for group sharing.  There are samples on the web page, but the actual materials need to be ordered.  The cost is minimal.

They also have peace prayers available online.

Prayers- all

Catholic Relief Services has a page with prayer services for

• Darfur
• Solidarity with Africa
• Iraq (Stepping Toward Peace) and a powerpoint meditation Praying Face to Face (with leader's guide)
• Bringing Peace to the Holy Land
• Natural Disaster Prayer Service
• Prayer Service for Immigrants from Latin America
• A Prayer Service responding to the Global HIV/AIDS crisis

There are also two retreats

• Praying without Borders
• Solidarity with Africa

Earth Ministry

This site has litanies, sermons and other prayers for environmental justice.  They also have a Stations of the Cross for the environment.

Network

There are several prayer resources which are downloadable.

Fellowship of Reconciliation

They have a resource for quotes about peace and for prayers for peace.  The quote section is much more extensive than the prayer section and arranged according to person.

Quotes

Prayers and reflections

The Web of the Cross

This website provides a link to a website about a social issue to form a global way of the cross. Adults for personal reflection.

Justice Prayers- Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities

The page has a few good justice prayers.  They can be found beneath the listing for prayer resources and the psalms.

This resource from the USCCB's Liturgy Office can be used as is or adapted to suit your needs. There is also a collection of prayers for peace.

There are also general intercessions around the issue of peace.

Bread for the World has several prayer and reflection resources based on the Millennium Development Goals. These prayer resources come as word documents so they can be adapted.

A Theological Reflection on MDG and the Season of Advent

To the Least of These Do Justice

An Advent Bidding Prayer

Advent Evening Prayer

These stations are meditations on Jesus' way of the cross with prayer reflections, and connections drawn to capital punishment today. Stations were written for a Cleveland group, Catholic Students for Justice and Peace who embarked on a 160 mile bike trip to witness against the death penalty. You will also need the printing directions for the booklet.

The resource comes from the Education for Justice website.  The website is a subscription service, but well worth the investment.

Besides worship resources on peace, you will also find prayers for Advent and Christmas, Lent and Easter, Martin Luther King Day, Earth Day, United Nations Day and Human Rights Day as well as suggestions about how to preach peace.

This day of recollection was developed by the staff of the Office of Justice and Peace of the Diocese of Richmond.  The resources include the leader's guide and participant's guide.  For groups within the Diocese of Richmond, you can contact the Office of Justice and Peace and a staff member can help facilitate this day of recollection. (804-622-5125)

If you would like additional reflection materials on the Beatitudes, visit Resources for Catholic Educators.  There is a wealth of reflection pieces on the Beatitudes in general and on each of the Matthean Beatitudes in particular.

St. Andrew Society

They offer a six- week Scripture study on hunger.  You can order hard copies at a cost, but it is a free download from the website.  The website has other information about hunger and about gleaning programs and wasted food in our country. 

CAFOD (Catholic Organization for Overseas Development)

Their worship resources includes prayers, liturgies and services, quotes and reflections, Mass talks, biblical texts and even some things for RCIA and Confirmation.

Surefish- Act Justly

This contains an Act Justly I and II which can be downloaded.  Each is a six session Scripture study linking the scriptures to justice issues.  There are also prayer resources on the website.

Mennonite Central Committee

These peace studies are meant for group sharing.  There are samples on the web page, but the actual materials need to be ordered.  The cost is minimal.

They also have peace prayers available online.

Prayers- all

St. Louis University

This website offers many different perspectives on the Sunday readings.  One of the perspectives offered is “The Perspective of Justice.”  Select the Sunday from the home page, select “Spirituality for Sunday” and then “The Perspective of Justice.”

Center of Concern

The Center of Concern offers reflections on the Sunday readings from a justice perspective.  The resource also offers questions for faith sharing groups.

Catholic Relief Services has a page with prayer services for

• Darfur
• Solidarity with Africa
• Iraq (Stepping Toward Peace) and a powerpoint meditation Praying Face to Face (with leader's guide)
• Bringing Peace to the Holy Land
• Natural Disaster Prayer Service
• Prayer Service for Immigrants from Latin America
• A Prayer Service responding to the Global HIV/AIDS crisis

There are also two retreats

• Praying without Borders
• Solidarity with Africa

Peace Connections

This website has peace and justice reflections for the Sunday readings for all three cycles.  The documents are available in Microsoft Word or pdf format.

8^th Day Center for Justice

The 8^th Day Center offers a downloadable guide for reflection “Toward a Spirituality of Justice.”

Sojourners on the Issues

Discussion guides for four sessions each with articles from past issues of Sojourner’s magazine. Cost is $14.95 for each packet.  Available topics are Christian feminism, Christians and Nonviolence, Christians and Politics, Christians and the Environment, Christians and the Global Economy, Christians and Racial Justice, Christians and the Middle East, Christians and Poverty, Welcoming the Stranger: Christians and Immigration and What the Waters Revealed: Christians and Hurricane Katrina.  There is a sample available.

Handbook on Catholic Social Teaching

This “handbook” provides information on Catholic Social Teaching and some discussion questions. 

Economy

Political justice

Discrimination

War and Peace

Criminal Justice

Dominican Justice and Peace Workbooks

The  Peace and Justice Commission of the Dominican Order has produced five workbooks to assist their brothers and sisters, and all concerned, to become more aware of the resources, the stories and the techniques for pursuing justice and peace issues in our day. It is easier to navigate the text using the individual books rather than downloading the whole file which needs to be unzipped.

This poetic reflection is by Joseph Donders and focuses on the meaning of Ash Wednesday and Lent.  It is from the Education for Justice website.

This handout includes many practical ways to cut down on consumerism and to make more just shopping decisions. A companion piece is one which lists organizations concern themselves with sweatshops and suggestions for just shopping.  Both are from the Education for Justice website. This website is available by subscription and well worth the cost.

Stories Converse

This is  weekly faith sharing material with solid, scholarly exegesis and reflection questions for a small group or for individual reflection.  The material is written from the perspective that our faith is alive, vibrant and growing.  As with any living thing, we must nurture and continue to develop our faith in order for it to thrive. We also believe that our faith is to be lived, that being people of faith requires an active response and a structuring of our lives to reflect the faith we profess. There is a small fee for the service.

This resource from the Bread for the World website offers three reflections using texts from the prophets and pictures and situations of poor people in our world today.  The reflections are suitable for discussion or private reflection.  There are discussion questions included.

Bread for the World has several prayer and reflection resources based on the Millennium Development Goals. These prayer resources come as word documents so they can be adapted.

A Theological Reflection on MDG and the Season of Advent

To the Least of These Do Justice

An Advent Bidding Prayer

Advent Evening Prayer

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