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Welcome to the Diocesan newsletter from the office of Life and Social Justice! You are in this league because your contact info was in my amazing predecessor Cristina Hernandez’ files and after two months of receiving the baton I am super excited to connect with you.
By definition, a league is connected by a common purpose and ours is to know and love Christ and to make him better known through prayer and action. As a former community mental health therapist and youth minister, I come into this position with an intention to assess our needs and resources as well as our connections to existing organizations that promote wellness for the entire body of Christ.
Therefore, Eucharistic Justice refers to the knowing that the Eucharist is Someone, Christ and as people of faith our attention to mental health and social services rooted in Catholic teaching is crucial, especially in a time when new age practices and ideologies are rampant with confusion geared towards our youth and when families are struggling to make ends meet.
Some of the questions I am praying with are:
How can this office of life and social justice bring our families back to the Sacraments?
By this I mean, how can all of us address the external circumstances–financial hardship, hunger, etc., and the internal circumstances – depression, anxiety, indifference, etc. that affect us so that we can receive the Eucharist, adore Him and restore a sense of belonging to Christ that moves us to serve Him in others? Without Him there is no activism, there is no service, there is no hope.
How can these efforts be multigenerational and multicultural?
Yes, there are infinite needs in our Diocese and in our world but let us remember that the greatest justice we can do is to return our hearts to the One who made them and from that belonging be of service.
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