Advocate

How To Resources

Advocacy 101 from the Ignatian Solidarity Network: ignatian-advocacy/Ignatian-Advocacy-101-Ignatian-Solidarity-Network-Jesuit-Conference.pdf

Advocacy Amplified Training Series from the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas: sistersofmercy.org/mercy-for-justice/advocacy-amplified-resource-page

Just Faith offers Just Action! How to Advocate and Mobilize for Justice

Action Areas

Peace & Nonviolence

Join Churches for Peace in the Middle East: Mondays, Community Calls to Congress

Pax Christi USA, the Catholic Advisory Council of Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP), Franciscan Action Network, and the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns are co-sponsoring a new open letter from Catholics expressing our anguish over the ongoing violence in Israel-Palestine.

Read the letter

Sign on

Catholic Mobilizing Network (CMN)—restorative justice and abolition of the death penalty: prayer, learning, and action.

The Immigration Crisis

The basic desire of the Sisters of Saint Joseph is to reflect a “profound love of God and neighbor without distinction.” Therefore we pray and act:

• Link to “Home,” a Refugee Poem by Warsan Shire

• Prayer Service from the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston

• Prayer Service from the Sisters of St. Joseph of Philadelphia

• Prayer for Children Who Have Been Taken into U.S. Border Custody from the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange

Volunteer with Rochester Rapid Response Network

Explore the Local Needs Catalog from Greater Rochester Community of Churches. Donate your time and/or treasure.

Ecological Conversion

Groups we work with:

• Rochester Area Interfaith Climate Action

• Religious Coalition for the Great Lakes 

• Laudato Si Movement

• Laudato Si Action Platform

• Seneca Lake Guardian—fighting against the expansion of Seneca Meadows Landfill (among other things!)

• Allies of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation working to support Indigenous sovereignty and defend endangered species & sacred ecosystems in Genesee County.

Human Trafficking

Here’s a few things you can do:

• Share the information (above) with your network of friends, faith community and contacts.

• Review and share these educational resources:

  • Interfaith Toolkit, compiled by the Washington Inter-Religious Staff Community Working Group on Human Trafficking

  • Educational Resources and Curriculum from U.S. Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking

  • Additional Resources and important websites

• National Human Trafficking Hotline

Pray

Prayer for Conscience and Courage ~ by Joan Chittister

Loving God,
lead us beyond ourselves
to care and protect,
to nourish and shape,
to challenge and energize
both the life and the world
You have given us.

God of light and God of darkness,
God of conscience and God of courage
lead us through this time
of spiritual confusion and public uncertainty.

Lead us beyond fear, apathy and defensiveness
to new hope in You and to hearts full of faith.

Give us the conscience it takes
to comprehend what we’re facing,
to see what we’re looking at
and to say what we see
so that others, hearing us,
may also brave the pressure that comes
with being out of public step.

Give us the courage we need
to confront those things
that compromise our consciences
or threaten our integrity.

Give us, most of all,
the courage to follow those before us
who challenged wrong and changed it,
whatever the cost to themselves. ~ Amen

First Friday Prayer Vigils

On the First Friday of each month, Catholic Mobilizing Network invites you to a virtual prayer vigil, a sacred space to lament upcoming executions and bear witness to the sanctity of all human life. Join us to stand in solidarity with people facing execution, their victims, and all who are impacted by the unjust system of capital punishment. Register here.