✝️Justice & Peace 6-Week Lenten Action Challenge

During this season of Lent we can grow closer to God through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. While charitable giving is an essential expression of our faith, Pope Francis reminds us in Fratelli Tutti, and Pope Leo echoes in Dilexi Te, that true love also calls us to transform the injustices and structures that make charity necessary in the first place.

We are challenging supporters to be agents of transformative justice and peace this Lent in a world scarred by conflict, poverty, and the denial of rights.

🕊️Will you commit to taking one action for justice and peace over the next six weeks by joining the Justice & Peace Lenten Action Challenge?

Here are some example actions to inspire you. We will share tips for each one over the coming weeks:

🔹Week 1 (Poverty): Write to your MP or councillor calling for structural action on poverty and the housing crisis.
🔹Week 2 (Refugees): Volunteer at a conversation café or refugee support group and encounter those whose stories are often ignored.
🔹Week 3 (Care for Creation): Care for our common home by planting a tree, reducing waste, or supporting an environmental justice cause.
🔹Week 4 (Peace): Learn about an ongoing conflict and support organisations working for nonviolence, peace, and disarmament.
🔹Week 5 (Dignity of Work): Practice ethical consumerism - choose Fair Trade or local goods to support workers' rights.
🔹Week 6 (Solidarity): Write a message or letter to a prisoner or to someone in immigration detention, offering compassion and hope.

💜Small actions, taken faithfully, can renew both our own relationship with God this Lent and help to renew the world around us.

💡Do you have other ideas or actions people can take part in each week? Share these in the comments below!