Dominican
Family Gatherings
- Our next gathering is ,
Monday, November 2 at 7 p.m. (with social time beginning at 6:45.)
Prayer for
Immigrant Children
Last year,
Dominican Family members joined in a prayer vigil at a proposed detention
center for family and children here in Houston. During the recent
presidential debate, many were reminded of the families held in detention and
were moved even more by the discussions and images of the 500+ children that
may never be reunited with their families. The following is a beautiful
prayer we would like to share with you as a way of remembering these children.
Loving Father,
in your infinite compassion, we
seek your divine protection for refugee children who are often alone and
afraid.
Provide solace to those who have
been witnesses to violence and destruction, who have lost parents, family,
friends, home, and all they cherish due to war or persecution.
Comfort them in their sorrow and
bring help in their time of need. Show mercy to unaccompanied migrant children,
too, Lord. Reunite them with their families and loved ones.
Guide those children who are
strangers in a foreign land to a place of peace and safety. Comfort them in
their sorrow and bring help in their time of need.
Show us how we might reach out to
these precious and vulnerable children.
Open our hearts to migrant and
refugee children in need, so that we might see in them your own migrant Son.
Give us courage to stand up in their defense against those who would do them
harm.
For this we pray through our Lord
Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, forever and ever.
Amen
(justiceforimmigrants.org)
Opportunities
and Announcements
- Poverty Committee
- Our next committee
meeting: Wednesday, November 11 - 7:00- 7:30 p.m. followed by Book
Club at 7:30. Due to Zoom time limits the general meeting and the book
study have separate links. Please direct questions to committee
chair Shawna Callahan at shawna.callaghan@att.n...
- Dominican
Family Poverty Committee Meeting
- Time: November 11, 2020- 7:00
p.m.
- To
Join Zoom Meeting see email
- November
Book Study - "Revive Us Again: Vision and Action in Moral
Organizing", Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
- Time: November 11, 2020 - 7:30 p.m.
- To
Join Zoom Meeting see email
Committee
Contact Information
Please consider joining one of
our committee to further engage in Dominican Family life. The following
is a list of chair people for each committee and their email address for you to
reach out to for more information.
Communications: Mary Perrotti, mary.perrotti@st-agnes...
Dominican Formation: Joe Allen, joesallen@me.com
Hospitality: Lauren Wasielewski, laurenmk@hotmail.com
Integral Ecology: Neil Douglas, oxfordcg2@gmail.com
Poverty: Shawna Callahan, shawna.callaghan@att.n...
Racial Justice: Calista Herbert, calista@herberts.org
Study