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Week Beginning Monday 21 st October 2013

Week Beginning Monday 21 st October 2013. FCJ Charity Week – FCJ Refugee Centre, Toronto. “Making a difference for uprooted* people.” (Uprooted People are those who are forced to leave their communities and country; those who flee because of persecution and war,

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Week Beginning Monday 21 st October 2013

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  1. Week Beginning Monday 21st October2013 FCJ Charity Week – FCJ Refugee Centre, Toronto “Making a difference for uprooted* people.” (Uprooted People are those who are forced to leave their communities and country; those who flee because of persecution and war, those who are forcibly displaced because of environmental devastation and those who are compelled to seek sustenance in a city or abroad because they cannot economically survive at home.)

  2. Wednesday 23rd October 2013 Loly and Francisco Rico-Martinez are the co-directors of the FCJ Refugee Centre. They arrived in Canada as refugees from El Salvador in 1990. They had two children and their third was born shortly afterwards. Having been given a place of refuge in an FCJ House in Toronto and being successful in their refugee claim they wanted to offer a safe house for other refugees during the application process. Their passion to help other uprooted people led the FCJ Sisters to respond and give them the property necessary to help their dream become a reality.

  3. Jesus taught that we should love our neighbour as ourselves. How can this teaching help us respond more to uprooted people in this country? Do you always act as Jesus taught?

  4. Let us pray: Help us find ways to stand with our sisters and brothers who simply want a chance to survive and prosper in their home countries. And when there is no such chance or when it is painfully slow in coming, help us act with compassion, care and commitment so as to be the tent in which they can be restored in your loving presence and find safe shelter among us. Amen.

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