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Rebuilding New Orleans
Posted: March 26, 2012 by jaynep2 in Action: serve as loving presence and act for a new dayTags: Christianity, discerning, faith, foot washing, God, healing touch, Holy Spirit, homeless, humility, ministry, New Orleans, religion, religious vocation, service, service trips, serving the homeless, Social Justice, The Rebuild Center, vocation, washing of the feet
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Can anything good come from Haiti?
Posted: March 15, 2011 by jaynep2 in Guest bloggersTags: Cabrini Mission Foundation, Cardinal Bernardin Scholars Program, Catholic, Catholic Social Teaching, Christianity, community, Fair Trade Coffee, faith, greed and apathy, Haiti, Haiti earthquake, Haitian culture, Just Haiti, justice, Nathanael and Philip, Peace, privilege, religion, Social Justice, spirituality, sustainable development
For most of us, inevitably when we hear “Haiti” our next thought is poverty. This has bothered me. Not because it is not true, but perhaps because it diminishes the Haitian people to a status of needing pity, or to a nation of people who cannot pull themselves together to build a sustainable living. “Oh [...]
