Taking Action
 

There is no time left for anything but to make peacework a dimension of our every waking activity.

Elise Boulding

LIFESTYLE CHOICES
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Buy a CD
Reconciliation - Stories of the Heart, Sounds of the Rock CD
A soundscape of music and words, featuring music from Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists including Midnight Oil, Wendy Matthews, Yothu Yindi and Paul Kelly. Free accompanying study guide can be downloaded. www.caritas.org.au
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Read a Book: A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah
A gripping story of a child’s journey through hell and back.
There may be as many as 300,000 child soldiers, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s, in more than fifty conflicts around the world. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. He is one of the first to tell his story in his own words. More
www.alongwaygone.com
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Tell your friends and colleagues that you are passionate about Peace and Reconciliation and that you take action on issues you're passionate about. Encourage your friends and colleagues to support your efforts by forwarding them this publication.
To do this, use the 'Tell a friend' form at the right hand side of this page.

FAITH

The Peace Prayer of St Francis
After praying the Prayer of St Francis, think about the places where there is injury, doubt, sadness in our world and how we can sow pardon, faith, and joy.

Lord make me an instrument of your Peace.
Where there is hatred let me sow love
Where there is injury; pardon
Where there is doubt; faith
Where there is despair; hope
Where there is darkness; light 
Where there is sadness; joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved, as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
CAMPAIGN

be more

Be Green… Be Just… Be More… the Be More Challenge is coming… Be ready!

‘Aspire not to have more, but to be more.’ These words from Archbishop Oscar Romero have inspired Caritas Australia's new campaign, encouraging Australians to ‘be more’ by making lifestyle changes and taking action for environmental and social justice.
Your simple actions can really make an impact. We live in a world of contrasts and conflicts. Whilst many of us live in a time of unprecedented wealth, others in the world and in our own country suffer debilitating poverty. One billion of the world’s people suffer chronic hunger whilst more than one billion suffer obesity. Over 30,000 children die every day due to extreme poverty.
The Be More Challenge will launch at the start of 2009, and is open to everyone. Get involved by setting your own challenges, making changes and taking small steps on the journey to make this world a better place. By creating your own challenges at local and global levels, you’ll be in charge of the changes you make, and your contribution to the challenge will be unique.

Be Informed! Sign up for the monthly e-newsletter to learn how to take action on social justice issues at: www.bemore.org.au

You’ll be the first to know when the Be More website community launches!
See how hundreds are Being More at World Youth Day 2008 via YouTube!
www.youtube.com
 
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