Thanksgiving Message from the Outreach and Social Justice Office
Thank you, the people of St. Thomas, for the countless ways you raise awareness, provide resources and model the hands, feet and heart of Jesus. May you, your families and your loved ones be blessed in abundance.
~ Peggy and Nicole
Thanksgiving Prayer
Creator God, we ask that you move us
Beyond the poverty of mindless consumption
To the abundance of your Church’s social teachings.
We ask that you move us
Beyond our impoverished need of material things
To the richness of solidarity with our brothers and sisters
Throughout our country
And around the world.
We ask that you move us
Beyond the empty drive
To store up individual possessions
To recognize the wealth of working
For the common good.
Grace us to consider the human dignity
And the rights as well as needs
Of everyone in our local,
National and global communities
Without counting the cost,
Knowing that, as we have read
In the recounting of distribution
Of the loaves and fishes,
There is always enough
For everyone to come to the table.
We thank you
For this abundance.
In Christ’s name
We pray.
Amen.
~ Jane Deren
Education for Justice, a project of the Ignatian Solidarity Network
