Menu of opportunities for “One Human Family, Food for All”

In order to support my involvement in the Caritas Internationalis campaign “One Human Family, Food for All” I pledge to one or more of the following activities between December 12, 2013 and December 31, 2014:

Spiritual engagement

I will participate in a prayer service devoted to hunger reduction at my congregation

I will devote one day a month to fasting and praying for the eradication of hunger in my community and the world

I will pray daily, as an individual or with my family, for hunger reduction

Other

Social outreach

I will help start or join a community garden enterprise where I live

I will teach someone gardening or canning

Every month, I will donate money, fresh produce, or nonperishable food items to a food bank, food shelf, or community meal program

Other

Educational formation

Either alone or with a group, I will read or watch one of the following videos or books: Down & Out in AmericaA Place at the TableDive. The 2014 Hunger Report (see http://hungerreport.org/).

I will help plan and implement a learning experience for children in our community on hunger

I will participate in the group simulation, “The Hunger Banquet.” See http://actfast.oxfamamerica.org/index.php/events/banquet

Other

Public policy engagement

I will subscribe to CCUSA Washington Weekly and respond to one action alert to protect food and hunger programs.

Other

Campaign Prayer

O God, you entrusted to us the fruits of all creation so that we might care for the

earth and be nourished with its bounty.

You sent us your Son to share our very flesh and blood and to teach us your Law of Love. Through His death and resurrection, we have been formed into one human family.

Jesus showed great concern for those who had no food – even transforming five loaves and two fish into a banquet that served five thousand and many more.

We come before you, O God, conscious of our faults and failures, but full of hope, to share food with all members in this global family.

Through your wisdom, inspire leaders of government and of business, as well as all the world’s citizens, to find just, and charitable solutions to end hunger by assuring that all people enjoy the right to food.

Thus we pray, O God, that when we present ourselves for Divine Judgment, we can proclaim ourselves as “One Human Family” with “Food for All”. AMEN.

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