JUSTICE AND PEACE GROUP

The Justice and Peace Group meets regularly to pray and reflect on scripture, discuss justice and peace issues and plan any actions to be taken. It exists to heighten awareness in the parish community to particular issues and provides opportunities for parishioners to support a range of projects. It maintains regular contact and offers moral and some financial support for groups both in Australia and overseas.

Over 20 years the group's activities have encompassed letter writing, protest against Gun shows, twinning with an El Salvadorian Basic Christian Community, active and ecumenical work with asylum seekers, support and activity on behalf of the Message Stick Project, a twice yearly cake stall and the regular selling of coffee from Timor-Leste.

The group suggests to the Parish appropriate recipients for the annual disbursement of funds allocated to Justice and Peace projects. These funds benefit such causes as the Catholic Prison Ministry for Aboriginal prisoners, a struggling parish in India, the Hotham Mission for Asylum Seekers, projects in Timor Leste and Dominican priests and nuns in the Solomon Islands.

Each year a dinner is held in conjunction with members of other Justice and Peace groups in the local area to hear invited speakers and share ideas. The 2008 dinner was addressed by Fr Peter Hosking SJ on the topic 'Mass violence ends - what next for a civil population'. Click here to download the notes from this address.

Fr Joe Ruys' ministry in Paraíso pueblo, Lima Peru

Attached is a letter and some photos (1, 2, 3) that provide background to one of the project that are supported by St Dominic's Parish, through the Justice & Peace Committee.

Interested in joining us?
The St. Dominic’s Justice and Peace Group meets in the Parish Community Centre on the last Monday of each month.

If you are interested in joining the group, please contact the Parish Secretary at St. Dominic’s Parish Office (Tel: 9912 6870 Option 3; or email secretary@stdominics.org.au) for details of the current co-ordinators. You would be most welcome.