Dare to Care!

October 14, 2024, is Thanksgiving Day in Canada and Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the USA.  These two feasts complement one another. Giving thanks with family walks among the red maples, celebrating the golden harvests, and telling stories around the large dinner table are experiences of connection with all creation. Remembering Indigenous heritage, cultures, languages, foods and music with online learning or personal encounter are opportunities for healing.

This week in Dare to Care, learn about Orange Shirt Day, an Indigenous-led, grassroots movement started in 2013 to remember indigenous children forced to leave their families in September to attend residential boarding schools.

Stay up to date on actions taken and upcoming actions that are part of our Dare to Care series.

Save the date of Wednesday, October 2, 7:00 pm for a prayer service led by the Addressing Climate Change Committee for the Season of Creation and the Feast of Saint Francis.

This Justice for Immigrants Committee is preparing a video of SSNDs, students and ministry partners of Hispanic Heritage celebrating their country of origin. Look for it sometime during the HH Month, September 15 – October 15. Think about how you might observe the month.

Haiti: When Teachers Grow, Students Shine

At the recent teacher training workshop in Matenwa, dedicated teachers had the opportunity to learn new methods and strategies for their own - and their students' - success.

This week in D2C get involved in Plastic Free July and World Day Against Trafficking in Persons on July 30th.

This week in D2C learn about World Refuge Day and the "Family Graduation Program" used by Beyond Borders in Haiti, in Science Mag.

This week in D2C read an article by Ralph Moore calling for Catholics to stand up for the “saintly six” and register for Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life online, to explore how this history shapes our current choices and how faith calls us to an active commitment to resist racism and ensure that we continue to honor and protect the essential freedoms that the Civil Rights Act enacted for all Americans 60 years ago.

This week in D2C, the Addressing Climate Change Committee invites you to commemorate Laudato Si' Week on Monday, take time to join a compassionate community of Israelis and Palestinians, and learn how sixth graders in Sarasota held an auction to raise money for Haiti.

In this week's Dare to Care join the Dismantling Racism Committee in the third and final in a series of questions in a “Racial Examination of Conscience” written by Mark Schmidt and learn about Bill 41, Protection from Coerced Debts, and how a bill becomes a law in Ontario.