Thursday, December 19, 6-7pm.

St. Matthew’s Creation Care GREEN Team prays for a peaceful and grace-filled Advent. Please join us for study, conversation, celebration and fellowship via Zoom.

ZOOM: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86181574570 Meeting ID: 861 8157 4570 Dial in: 301 715 8592.

We will explore how key principles of Catholic social thought can offer an affirmative path forward in both a challenged Church and a polarized nation.

How can our Holy Father´s priorities of encounter and mercy, respect for the dignity of all people and God’s creation, standing with migrants and poor families, and synodality and the “joy of the Gospel” help Catholics contribute to a “better kind of politics” and “an outward-facing Church that is healthy on the inside”?

Resources:

1. Francis. XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops. For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, Mission. Final Document.

2. What Do We Do Now? Catholic Responsibilities, Opportunities After the Election and Synod.

3. Social encyclicals: Catholic lens on the world’s social issues.