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CATHOLIC SOC
IAL JUSTICE TEACHINGS
Website of
the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker Community of Oklahoma
City. Grace and peace to all who visit here!
WARNING: 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
WE
NEED HELP delivering food to the urban poor in
Oklahoma City who don't have transportation.
Upcoming dates: September 22 and September 29. Details!
2012 Summer NOVENA
OF NOVENAS
81 days of intercessory prayer for justice, peace,
and the care of Creation.
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Essentials
Works of Justice & PeaceOur Response to War 1998 - to date. Who we are How to Start a CWer House Evangelical Poverty & the Healing of Nations A Little Way of Justice & Peace A Civilization of life and love Venite Adoremus (music for the season) Keeping
in Touch
https://twitter.com/#!/okccathworker New! Catholic Justice & Peace Announcements an announcement only (no discussion) listserv with social justice/Catholic Worker news. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cathworker/ Catholic Worker discussion http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RunningOnEmpty2/ Peak Oil discussion (7500+ members, conversation began 2001) |
January
2012 Strangers and
Guests CWer Maloy, iowa Sower
Summer 2012 OKC Catholic Worker Newspaper Lent 2007 Summer 2006 Fall 2005 Lent 2005 Fall 2002 Spring 2000 & Fall 2001 Justpeace Front Page -- 1998
- 2002 |
Catholic
Social Teachings
Papal & Episcopal Documents on justice and peace Orthodoxy -- correct belief Orthopraxis -- correct practice A brief catechism on Virtue A look at the theological, cardinal, and civic virtues. Demons of injustice Scripture redactions of Scripture for reflection and lectio divina Spirituality relating to social justice, prayer, and music. Saints of justice and peace Reflections on lectionary readings What God says about the poor Meditations on Justice and Peace for Holy Week 2012 YEAR OF SOCIAL JUSTICE! Access to Lenten Reflections on the Sunday and Daily lectionary readings, for preaching, contemplation, and action. |
Care
of Creation
Energy Conservation Permaculture Worker Cooperatives Getting the Right Eats Compendium of Useful
Information -- From the Peter Maurin
Agronomic University Extension Department, Bobaganda!
- Bob
Waldrop rants "with hair on fire" about
politics, economics, food, permaculture,
sustainability, peak oil, climate
instability, cooperatives, local foods,
and etc. Permaculture and Distributism, John Medaille and Bob Waldrop presentation, April 12, 2012 Ft. Worth, Texas, click link for details.
Miscellaneous The
War on Immigrants: Statement by the Oscar
Romero Catholic Worker House on proposed new
harsh immigration laws, AND a discussion
of the theological 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, Woe
to the Rich + A Holy Day |
Prayer Jesus Prayer Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. Print the music Prayer, Meditation, Contemplation Novena to St. John Chrysostom on behalf of the Catholic Bishops of the United States Novena of Novenas, 9 consecutive novenas for justice, peace, & care of Creation, from the Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (June 20), to the Nativity of Mary (Sept 8). Angelus in Time of War Prayer to Our Lady of Sorrows for those who will die today because of war and economic catastrophe. Prayers to Saints for justice and peace Prayers of Justice & Peace for Various Occasions Dorothy Day & Peter Maurin Chaplet Novena to Our Lady of Sorrows regarding the human and ecological crisis in the Gulf of Mexico after the BP spill. The importance of observing the Ember Days March 24 -- the Remembrance of the Martyrdom of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, Martyr and Confessor of the Faith -- a Litany of Remembrance and Salvation. |
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.
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.
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Alliance for Liturgy and the Arts.
Information about liturgical music and arts
presentations in Oklahoma. Our Associated
Websites: Better Times Access to Simple and Frugal Living Resources + Access to Energy Conservation Resources + Oklahoma Food Cooperative + 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 |
Virtual Rosary
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
Call to
Ember Days 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
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
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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Evangelical Poverty and the Healing of Nations , May 6, 2002 |
Seven Sermons of Oscar Romero Mar. 2002 |
Lenten Alms for the Poor , Feb.13,2002 |
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Lenten alms for the environment , February 13, 2002 On buying a pig and ten chickens , a social justice essay for the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, June 2, 2002 |
Open
Letter
to the US Bishops on the war in Open
Letter to the Religious Communities of |
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 |
READ MORE -- LEARN MORE!
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam.
Robert Waldrop, Justpeace webservant, also moderates these listservs . Click the links for more info or to subscribe:
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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