Home You have a call Prayer Requests Read your Prayers Request a Prayer About Us The work we do Where we work Society Members Our History St. Patrick Directions to Kiltegan Make a Donation Justice and Ecology Come Rest Awhile Slí an Chroí Tearmann Spirituality Centre (Glendalough) Africa Magazine Contents Selected Articles Order your Magazine Cards United States United Kingdom Ireland Publications Useful Links Contact Details          You are here:  Justice  >>  Our Justice Statement          OUR JUSTICE STATEMENT          ‘This is what the Lord asks of you: Only this, to act justly, to love tenderly and to walk humbly with your God’ (Mic 6:8)          ‘To know me, Yahweh, means to do justice’ (Jer 22:16) Based on the precepts of the bible, acting justly has always been at the centre of the Christian tradition. (c.f. Ex 22: 21-26; Is 10:1-2; 58:6-8;61:1-2:Mt 25:31-46;Lk 4:18-19;Jn 10:10).        St. Patrick’s Missionary Society has always seen action on behalf of justice as being at the heart of its missionary apostolate.        Our Constitutions remind us that ‘action on behalf of justice and action to restore and preserve the integrity of creation is an essential part of the preaching of Christ’s gospel and of the mission of the Church’.        We live and minister in a number of countries in Africa, North and South America and Europe.               Other Justice issues:          Global Warming                   Trafficking in Persons: The Demand Side                   Our Justice Statement                   Genetic Modification                   Trafficking in Human Persons                   Financial Crisis, Ecological Crisis                   In each of these countries, one of our members is designated as the Society Justice person, whose task it is to highlight the pressing issues in that particular country. We also encourage other members, who wish to consider justice work as a special ministry. A number of our priests work full-time in the Justice Apostolate. For all of us, the gospel challenges us to see and respond to justice issues as a constitutive part of our daily ministry. We also support the work of a number of groups who are active on human rights issues. In Ireland , the growing number of refugees and asylum-seekers presents a specific challenge to our members ministering there. AIDS is an ever-increasing plague in many of the countries where we work, especially in Central Africa. We are all required to listen to and be in dialogue with the world in which we minister, to dream of and work for a world in which all God’s children are cherished equally.          ‘This is what the Lord asks of you: Only this, to act justly, to love tenderly and to walk humbly with your God’ (Mic 6:8)                   top of page          HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THIS ISSUE? Contact us at the numbers or email address below.                   St. Patrick's Missionary Society - Kiltegan, Co. Wicklow        Tel: 059 6473600        Fax: 059 6473622        Email: spsgen@iol.ie Powered by: go2web