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JUBILEE PLEDGE FOR CHARITY, JUSTICE AND
PEACE
This Jubilee Pledge for Charity, Justice and Peace
is being offered to individuals, families and parishes as a sign of commitment
in preparation for the millennium:
The jubilee of our Lords birth calls us to bring glad
tidings to the poor, to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to
the blind, to let the oppressed go free (Luke 4:18).
As disciples of Jesus in the new millennium, I/we pledge to:
- Pray regularly for greater justice and peace.
- Learn more about Catholic social teaching and its call to
protect human life, stand with the poor and care for creation.
- Reach across boundaries of religion, race, ethnicity, gender
and disabling conditions.
- Live justly in family life, school, work, the marketplace and
the political arena.
- Serve those who are poor and vulnerable, sharing more time and
talent.
- Give more generously to those in need at home and abroad.
- Advocate public policies that protect human life, promote
human dignity, preserve Gods creation and build peace.
- Encourage others to work for greater charity, justice and
peace.
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Love for others, and in the first place love for the poor, in
whom the church sees Christ himself, is made concrete in the promotion of
justice.
Pope John Paul II, Centesimus Annus
National Catholic Reporter, December 11,
1998
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