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Christmas Blessings From U.S Province Missionary Oblates JPIC Office! December 21st, 2015

Missionary Oblates join other faith leaders in open letter to Donald Trump December 11th, 2015

Upon the recommendation of the Oblate JPIC office, Provincial of the U.S. Missionary Oblates Province, Fr. William Antone, OMI endorsed a letter by faith leaders addressed to Mr. Donald Trump concerning comments about Muslims.

The Oblate School of Theology (OST) Executive Committee in San Antonio TX has also endorsed the letter.

Visit OST’s website to see the endorsement.

Open letter from faith leaders to Donald Trump

As leaders in America’s faith community, our institutions do not engage in partisan politics. We do, however, speak to important moral and ethical issues facing our nation.

In this spirit, we write to express in the strongest possible terms our deep disappointment and even disgust with the proposal made by you to stop allowing Muslims to enter the United States.

Our faith traditions demand that we extend a welcoming hand to those in need. America is an immigrant nation. We know that many have come to our country, and continue to do so, seeking religious freedom and an end to persecution…..

Read the faith leaders letter to Mr Donald Trump……

Coverage of the 2015 Paris climate talks from The Christian Science Monitor December 8th, 2015

Coverage of the 2015 Paris climate talks from The Christian Science Monitor

In December, diplomats from nearly 200 countries meet in Paris to finalize an international climate agreement. The aim is to limit greenhouse-gas emissions – and the warming those emissions cause – to within a safe range. Visit the website here.

(A special thanks to Fr Bob Wright, OMI (San Antonio) and Fr Santiago Lyons, OMI (Mexico) for sending us this link).

Celebrating the Jubilee Year of Mercy December 8th, 2015

Celebrating the Jubilee Year of Mercy,
(2015 – 2016)

Honoring the Mother of Mercy – Immaculate Conception
(December 8)

Thanking God for the grace of Oblate Triennium
(1816 – 2016)

In his letter for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, our Superior General notes, “One of [Mary’s] titles special to the heart of St. Eugene was the Mother of Mercy.” This is especially fitting as the solemnity marks the beginning of the Jubilee Year of Mercy, inaugurated by Pope Francis. In a recent interview with the Italian Catholic magazine Credere, Pope Francis was asked why he chose ‘mercy’ as this Jubilee’s theme. In response the Holy Father notes, “It’s obvious that today’s world is in need of mercy, it is in need of compassion. We are used to bad news…On one hand we see the arms trade, the production of arms that kill, the murder of innocents in the most cruel possible way, the exploitation of persons, minors, children…” The Pope goes on to say that “we must cultivate a revolution of tenderness as the fruit of this Year of Mercy: God’s tenderness towards each one of us. Each one of us must say: “I am an unfortunate man, but God loves me thus, so I must also love others in the same way.”