IAL JUSTICE TEACHINGSIAL JUSTICE TEACHINGSWARNING:
The
study, practice, and spirituality of Catholic social justice
teachings may be hazardous to your
hard-heartedness, complacency, skepticism, indifference, and
hubris. Proceed at your own risk! |
Those who shut their ears to the cry of the poor will
themselves also call and not be heard. Proverbs 21:13 |
You are the God of the lowly, the helper of the oppressed, the
supporter of the weak, the protector of the forsaken,
the savior of those without hope. Judith 9:11
January 2012 OKC Catholic Worker Newsletter
WE NEED
HELP delivering food to the urban poor
in Oklahoma City who don't have transportation. Upcoming
dates: January 21 and 28. Details!
Venite Adoremus,
10 improvisational meditations
on the music of Advent, Nativity, and Epiphany, recorded live by
Bob Waldrop on the
Yamaha Conservatory grand piano at the Church of the Epiphany of
the Lord in Oklahoma City. Funds from the sale of the CD benefit
the
ministries of the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House.
Occupy the
Archdiocese of Oklahoma City! SIGN the letter to the bishops
of the Archdiocese.
Access to the
growing Occupy! affinity group movement! Learn why you should pray the
ROSARY for the justice and peace
intention of the Occupy! movement. Find out more about the
importance of "occupying" your neighborhood or organization. We are the
99%!
A Better Way to Go
to Work
What is a worker-owned
cooperative? How can
it benefit you? The Oklahoma
Worker Cooperative Network is growing an
economyof solidarity, one worker owned job at a time. Contact us
for a presentation on worker cooperatives.
Our Response
to Unjust War Calling the Church to the consistent defense of life,
from the
moment of conception to the
time of natural death,
Novena to
St. John Chrysostom on
behalf of the Catholic Bishops of the United States
In Memoriam
Remembering the military and
civilian victims
of the unjust wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
February 13, 2010
Compendium of Useful Information -- From the Peter
Maurin Agronomic University Extension Department,
access to 2 gigabytes of information to help us survive the
collapse of the American Empire.
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Oklahoma City
Catholic Worker Newsletter
Because money has been scarce for
some time, instead of printing and mailing a tabloid
newspaper, we now produce
a monthly newsletter on legal-size paper and distribute
it primarily to the people we deliver food to each month.
Here are links to PDFs. We are not mailing out any copies,
feel free to print your own and make copies.
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http://bobaganda.blogspot.com
- the politics of local food, the local food cooperative
movement,
and the practicalities of using local foods in the kitchen.
Strangers
and Guests Catholic Worker Farm (Maloy, Iowa) Newsletter
We are offering cyber-hospitality to Bryan Terrell and Betsy
Keenan at
Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker Farm in Iowa, by hosting
their newsletter.
Sower
Winter 2011-2012
The Sower, Fall 2010 | The
Sower, Summer 2010 | The Sower
Winter-Spring 2010
| The Sower, Winter 2010-11 | The Sower, Spring 2011 | Sower Summer
2011
Via
Pacis
Newsletter
of the Des Moines Catholic Worker Community, Advent 2011. plus
archive of previous issues.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have
mercy on me, a sinner.
Listen to the choir and congregation of Epiphany Church in
Oklahoma City
sing this prayer during Holy Communion
on Ash Wednesday, 2010: Jesus Prayer
Here is the music: The Jesus
Prayer, set to music
The Essentials
The Works of Justice and Peace
On Pilgrimage in Oklahoma City Blog
On
Pilgrimage in Oklahoma City 2003-May 2008
Venite Adoremus
(music for the season)
About the Oscar
Romero Catholic Worker House
Our
Response to Unjust War
How to start
a Catholic Worker House
Evangelical
Poverty and the Healing of Nations
A Little Way of
Justice and Peace
Building a
civilization of life and love
Volunteering
and Visiting at the OKC Catholic Worker
Letter to
Archbishop Piero Sambi, Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S.
How to
Help the OKC Catholic Workers
http://www.thedorothydaycenter.com/
What God
says about the poor
Getting the
Right Eats
www.bobwaldrop.net
Garden
Blog
Novena to Our Lady of Sorrows
regarding the human and ecological crisis in the Gulf of Mexico.
June 16, 2010, pdf suitable for
copying and distribution.
2011 Novena
of Novenas, 9
consecutive novenas, beginning on the
Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (June 20) and ending on
the Nativity of Mary (September 8).
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liturgical music and arts presentations in Oklahoma. Our Associated Websites: Better Times Access to Simple and Frugal Living Resources + Access to Energy Conservation Resources + Central Oklahoma Transportation Issues + Oklahoma Clothing + Oklahoma Food Cooperative + Oklahoma City Common Good Campaign + Please help us continue our ministries of justice and peace through the coming year! Each year we deliver food to 3,000+ families who don't have transportation. Every year nearly a million people visit one of our websites and download an average of 3 pages. Your financial support makes this possible. Donations can made sent to 1524 NW 21, Oklahoma City, OK 73106; checks should be made payable to Romero Catholic Worker House. You can also donate via PayPal; to do this, go to www.paypal.com and cick on "Send Money" and our PayPal payment address is jpeaceokc@yahoo.com . We also invite people to buy our Christmas music CD, Venite Adoremus, which is piano improvisions by Robert Waldrop on the music of Advent, Nativity, and Epiphany. Details of that CD, including music clips, are here. Thank you for your generous support; our benefactors are always in our prayers. For much greater detail about our plans for adapting our "urban homestead" to meet the looming challenges of peak oil, climate instability, and economic irrationality, see Gatewood Urban Homestead, the permaculture design for our house. From the Red Dirt Labor Alliance, the Oklahoma Labor Standard online edition Dear Catholic Bishops, a letter from Osama bin Laden - a religious and political satire in 240 words. Postcard version, a PDF document suitable for printing and copying so you can mail it to your favorite bishop. Flyer version, 2 per sheet, a PDF document suitable for copying and distributing at meetings, demonstrations, etc. See also More Letters from Osama, June 26, 2007 Keeping warm in a winter weather emergency, http://www.energyconservationinfo.org/printwarmth.pdf |
Morning Prayer for the Martyrdom of Romero -- March 24th is the anniversary of Romero's martyrdom.
US
Bishops guilty of material cooperation with unjust war
- Catholic Worker commentary on the bishops' statements of Nov
2006 and Jan 2007.
Our Annual
Advent Appeal
Response to
November 13, 2006 US Bishops Statement on Iraq
Response to
Stephen Colecchi, November 9, 2006
I received a response to my article Liturgy and War, from the head
of the bishops' Office of Social Development and World Peace. This
is my response to Mr. Colecchi's letter.
Reflections on the Lectionary Readings , by Bob Waldrop, in the context of the music I select for the Sunday Masses at Epiphany of the Lord Church in Oklahoma City, where I am director of music, September 30, 2007
Obituary of my father, Max Waldrop
2006
Catholic Worker Call to Peace
issued at the National Catholic Worker Gathering,
October 19-21, Panora, Iowa
The 2007 Lenten Ember Days are February 28th and March
2nd and 3rd
Call to
prayer and fasting
Liturgy
and
War and the U.S. Catholic Bishops
July 11, 2006
Presanctified
Liturgy for Victims of the War in Iraq
to be celebrated by Bishop John Michael Botean, March 19, 2007.
Bishop Botean is the only US Catholic bishop to issue a formal
canonical statement that the war on the people of Iraq was and is
an unjust war. High
quality
poster version.
Pathways to Justice and Peace. . . a labyrinth of discovery. . .
N.B.: The Justpeace website is not well organized. There are actually hundreds of pages here and the site index is way out of date. I first published this website to the Internet in 1997, and it has grown since then, one page at a time, without any overall plan or organizing scheme. I know it would be nice to have an up to date site index, and it is on the list of things to do, but that is a Very Long List, and it has yet to make it anywhere close to the top 100. Generally, the links on this page from here on are chronological, with the most recent just below this "Nota Bene", and going further back towards 1997 from there down. The Site Index has links to the pages here as of 2001. Pages since then are generally linked on this page or on pages linked to this page.
The War on Immigrants: Statement by the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House on proposed new harsh immigration laws, in English and Spanish, AND a discussion of the theological basis for our statement. Woe to the Rich(Immigration version), full text of the religious tract that has four Oklahoma congressional candidates and the president of the NW OKC Republican Club in a tizzy. Spring 2006
Blessed Are the Poor + A Holy Day Blessing to the Poor, to all who accompany them in their journeys, and to those who stand firm against the powers of hell and the culture of death, from the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House - this is the text of a card we included with our grocery deliveries this Christmas and are sending to other Catholic Worker houses. Christmas 2005
Woe to the Rich + A Holy Day Warning to all Politicians, the Selfish Rich, and the Politically Well-Connected, from the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House - this is the text of a card we have sent this year to many notorious oppressors of the poor in Oklahoma, including the members of the State Legislature, the Governor, the State Board of Education, and the Directors and Officers of Oklahoma Natural Gas and Oklahoma Gas and Electric. Christmas 2005
Getting the Right Eats: Bob Waldrop's Oklahoma Food Blog
2004 Forest Garden Blog , chronicling our gardening adventures on the corner of McKinley Street and NW 21st in Oklahoma City
OKC Catholic Worker Calendar of Events and How to Help us
Email Bob Waldrop: robert@justpeace.org
Better Times Almanac of Useful Information, 5th edition, Internet Edition
The Better Times Almanac is useful for anyone who wishes to live more frugally, simply, and sustainably. We consider the proper care and stewardship of Creation to be part of the social justice ministry of the Church, and this publication can help people to do this. Pope John Paul II was a Catholic environmentalist, and we follow his teaching in encouraging simple and frugal living. The fifth edition was a 32 page tabloid newspaper size publication, which is now out of print, but it lives on at http://www.bettertimesinfo.org/2004index.htm . Donation checks should be made payable to the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House. Donations of $15 or more will receive a copy of the CD, Venite Adoremus, improvisational piano meditations on Advent, Nativity, and Epiphany melodies, recorded live at Epiphany Church by Robert Waldrop.
Please keep praying against the Oklahoma City I-40 relocation project! + A prayer against the I 40 highway project in Oklahoma City
Lenten alms for
the Poor and for the Environment February 26,2004
Open letter to the
Oklahoma Chamber of Commerce , Feb 21, 2004
Oklahoma City Rail
the latest Justpeace website, January 2004 +
2003
Advent Letter , December 4, 2003 +
Letter to
Archbishop Martino regarding genetically modified organisms
November 12,2003 |
Oklahoma Food Cooperative
,
More errors of
Michael Novak , and others regarding the justice of war with
Iraq, February 20, 2003 +
The errors of
Michael Novak , an answer to his presentation of February 10th
in Rome, February 17, 2003 +
Ember Days , a
devotion reminding us of the importance of moderation in the use
of material goods, September 10, 2002 +
What is the Oscar
Romero Catholic Worker House? September 3, 2002 +
Governor Frank
Keating and the U.S. Catholic Bishops , August 31, 2002 +
All the Front Page
links , archives all 1083 annotated links posted in the
Justpeace Front Page social justice webzine, 1998 to 2002, June
13, 2002 +
Front Page
Commentaries , archives the miscellaneous comments and
introductory notes for the Front Page webzine, 1998 to 2002, June
13, 2002 +
Venite Adoremus , 10 improvisational piano meditations on the music of Christmas, recorded live by Robert Waldrop at Epiphany Church, proceeds benefit OKC Catholic Worker Ministries,Scroll to the bottom of the page to search the Justpeace websites!
Welcome Benedict XVI! John Paul the Great, Ora Pro Nobis!
A prayer at the burial of Pope John Paul II
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Open
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Eleven concerns about the justice of the Afghan War , November 2001 + A prayer against the I 40 highway project in Oklahoma City , in defense of 2 poor neighborhoods attacked by the rich and the powerful + May 13, 2002 |
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Catholic Justice and Peace Announcements +++ announcement only email listserv chronicling journeys of justice and peace through these days of turmoil for the American Empire. traffic is typically less than 5 posts/week, often less, depends on how busy I am, this is "Bob's Blog". . ..)
Catholic Justice and Peace Discussion +++ discussion of justice and peace issues in the Catholic context, all subscribers may post.
Runningonempty2 - not a Catholic or a religious discussion, but a long-running conversation on energy issues and peak oil, moderated by Bob Waldrop, established 2001, 7,000 members, 65,000 messages in the archives.Catholic Worker , ongoing conversation about the Catholic Worker movement.
Oklahoma Food Cooperative , local food cooperative discussion
Magnificat anima mea Dominum!
God has shown might with his arm, dispersed the arrogant of mind and heart, God has thrown down the rulers from their thrones, but lifted up the lowly. The hungry he has filled with good things; the rich he has sent away empty. Mary, Queen of Justice, Pray for Us!
This site opened December 22, 1997, the Memorial of St. Anastasia of Sirmium. On that day, in Acteal, Chiapas, Mexico, 49 Mayan people praying in a church -- 21 women (4 were pregnant), 15 children, and 9 men -- were murdered by paramilitary forces who had been organized and trained by the Mexican Army, while the national police force nearby refused to intervene to protect the people. See The Acteal Massacre for more information.
Holy Martyrs of Acteal, pray for us.
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Among the poor of this world, infant mortality is rising, daily caloric intake is decreasing, deadly epidemics are raging, & life expectancies are declining, with several countries approaching negative population growth due to rapidly rising mortality rates. Such are the consequences of the Globalization of Greed and Economic Tyranny.
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