National Migration Week
​is September 20-26, 2021

FROM THE UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS: 
For nearly a half century, the Catholic Church in the United States has celebrated National Migration Week, which is an opportunity for the Church to reflect on the circumstances confronting migrants, including immigrants, refugees, children, and victims and survivors of human trafficking.

#NMW2021 Toolkit Download the Toolkit Here
Catholic social teaching provides the foundation for how the Church addresses issues related to migration. Reflecting on both Scripture and the Church’s moral teachings, the bishops’ on migration inform the approach to migration policy taken by Catholic institutions and Catholics generally. The resources highlighted here will help you learn more about the Church’s social teachings as related to migration and how you can help to make positive change.
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Catholic Principles of Migration
​Catholic Social Teaching on Immigration and the Movement of Peoples
Christus vivit and Migration
The Catholic Church’s Position on Birthright Citizenship
The Catholic Church’s Teaching on Immigration Enforcement
​The Catholic Church’s Position on Immigration Reform
​The Catholic Church and Immigrant Religious Workers
The Holy See’s Perspective on Catholic Social Teaching and Migration
​Quotes from Church teachings on the rights of migrants and refugees

Celebrate the Season of Creation
September 1- October 4, 2021

"Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue;
​it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience."
(Laudato si’ #217)

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month!
September 15 - October 15

A bishop discusses Hispanic Heritage Month

Resources in Spanish for Catechists and Learners
are available in the diocesan library. 

CLICK HERE TO RESERVE LIBRARY MATERIALS 
or call 330 744-8451 ext 297, or email library@youngstowndiocese.org.

RCIA Online Training recordings
for all involved in Initiation Ministry in
the Diocese of Youngstown
are available HERE. 

Fight the sin of racism with these resources: 

The Year of St. Joseph

December 8, 2020 - December 8, 2021
"The aim of this Apostolic Letter is to increase our love for this great saint, to encourage us to implore his intercession and to imitate his virtues and his zeal."

"Fratelli Tutti"
A call from Pope Francis to live as one family

An Ecumenical Christian Prayer
O God, Trinity of love,
from the profound communion of your divine life,
pour out upon us a torrent of fraternal love.
Grant us the love reflected in the actions of Jesus,
in his family of Nazareth,
and in the early Christian community.
Grant that we Christians may live the Gospel,
discovering Christ in each human being,
recognizing him crucified
in the sufferings of the abandoned
and forgotten of our world,
and risen in each brother or sister
who makes a new start.
Come, Holy Spirit, show us your beauty,
reflected in all the peoples of the earth,
so that we may discover anew
that all are important and all are necessary,
different faces of the one humanity
that God so loves. Amen.
(concluding prayer of Fratelli Tutti
Given in Assisi, at the tomb of Saint Francis,
on 3 October, Vigil of the Feast of the Saint, in the year 2020)

"The Church is in a permanent state of mission"

                                                                         - (Pontifical) Directory for Catechesis, 2020

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