On Assignment: Accompaniment of Refugees Around the World

UPDATE: Daily Material for Retreat Provided Read Me Found Here

• Day 1 Materials
  • Read Me for Retreat
  • Comfort to my People
  • Pope on Lent
  • Keating Lectio Divina
  • Centering Prayer
  • Cardinal’s Message
  • Amoris Laetitia
• Day 2 Materials
  • Pope Francis: Hear the Cry of the Poor
  • Where is God in Suffering?
  • Refugee Poem
  • Keating’s Theological Basis
• Day 3 Materials
  • Finding God in Your Life
  • Rummaging for God
  • Racial Justice Resources

Our Special Lenten Mission Retreat coming this week with Father Doll’s On Assignment: Accompaniment of Refugees Around the World.  Sessions will be Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at both 10 AM and 6 PM.  This focus comes directly from the Holy Father, who stated in his message for the 2018 World Day of Migrants and Refugees last month:

Dear brothers and sisters!

“You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God” (Leviticus 19:34).

Throughout the first years of my pontificate, I have repeatedly expressed my particular concern for the lamentable situation of many migrants and refugees fleeing from war, persecution, natural disasters and poverty.  This situation is undoubtedly a “sign of the times” which I have tried to interpret, with the help of the Holy Spirit, ever since my visit to Lampedusa on 8 July 2013.  When I instituted the new Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, I wanted a particular section – under my personal direction for the time being – to express the Church’s concern for migrants, displaced people, refugees and victims of human trafficking.

Every stranger who knocks at our door is an opportunity for an encounter with Jesus Christ, who identifies with the welcomed and rejected strangers of every age (Matthew 25:35-43).  The Lord entrusts to the Church’s motherly love every person forced to leave their homeland in search of a better future.  This solidarity must be concretely expressed at every stage of the migratory experience – from departure through journey to arrival and return.  This is a great responsibility, which the Church intends to share with all believers and men and women of good will, who are called to respond to the many challenges of contemporary migration with generosity, promptness, wisdom and foresight, each according to their own abilities.

In this regard, I wish to reaffirm that “our shared response may be articulated by four verbs: to welcome, to protect, to promote and to integrate”.

Read more at: http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/migration/documents/papa-francesco_20170815_world-migrants-day-2018.html