Justice and Peace

 The St. Anne’s Justice and Peace Committee meets on the 2nd Monday of most months from 4:00pm – 5:30pm in the Great room. If you are interested in helping promote Justice and Peace issues in our parish, please consider joining the committee. You are invited to join the committee at any of our upcoming meetings.
Meeting dates for this year are:
NO May meeting
NO June meeting
Other meetings may be scheduled, if needed, to work on J&P projects. 

Specific Ministries addressed by the J&P Committee:

Education for Justice & Peace - Catholic Social Teaching
Peace Building
Operation Rice Bowl
Living More Simply
Support of Bristol Faith in Action
Ecology and the Integrity of Creation
Legislative Advocacy – Virginia Catholic Conference Advocacy
Respect Life
Civic Responsibility
Haiti Twinning and Global Solidarity
Prison Ministry Healthy Families – Family Farms
Disabilities Ministry
Faithful Citizenship
Refugee & Immigrants
Poverty
Racial Justice

"What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, to love kindness and walk humbly with your God." (Micah 6:8)

Our church mission statement expresses it as follows:
One of the great challenges for Christians is as old as our faith, how do we connect our Sunday worship with our everyday life? How do we carry the values of our faith into family life, our vocations, and our interactions in the public area? How do we love our neighbor, pursue peace and seek justice in everyday choices and commitments?

Catholics are called by God to protect human life, to promote human dignity, to defend the poor and to seek the common good. This social mission of the Church belongs to all of us. It is an essential part of what it is to be a believer. Catholicism does not call us to abandon the world, but to help shape it. This
does not mean leaving worldly tasks and responsibilities, but
transforming them. Catholics are everywhere in this society.

Working for justice in everyday life is not easy. There are complex and sometimes difficult challenges encountered by women and men as they try to live their faith in the world. We applaud the efforts of all Catholics to live the Gospel by pursuing justice and peace in their everyday choices and
commitments.

Our Justice and Peace committee works to educate our parish concerning our Catholic teaching on topics relevant to Justice and peace. And assist our community in developing outreach to those in need. Please Call Sydney Farnum 276-669-8200 ext 32 to join more fully in this effort.

Love for others, and in the first place love for the poor, in whom the Church sees Christ himself, is made concrete in the promotion of justice.
Pope John Paul II, Centesimus Annus, 1991

Respect Life

Our mission statement calls for us to live out the teachings of the Catholic Church on the sanctity of life by supporting individuals and families who are in crisis over a present or past pregnancy, educating the community on the sanctity, and urging our government to pass legislation which respects
life from the moment of conception to natural death.

Current Efforts:
. Educate parish community about issues of life and death.
. Collect baby and maternity items for Abortion Alternatives and Crisis
. Pregnancy Center.
. Encourage participation in the one mile walk for support of Abortion
. Alternatives and Crisis Pregnancy Center.

How you can help:
. Your time, talent, and ideas to fulfill our mission; and expand our efforts to new areas.
. Assist with walk-a-ton and collection of items.

For more information, please call Sydney Farnum at 276-669-8200 ext 32 or email sydneyfarnum@stannes-bristol.org