Blessed Christmas and welcome to the Dec. 23, 2020 edition of Just 3 Things, the weekly social action newsletter of the Office of Human Life & Dignity. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone issued new guidelines for Mass. Go here to read his letter. If this email was forwarded to you, and you'd like to receive it each week, please click here. Just 3 Things will return January 6, 2021.
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The Archdiocese of San Francisco is offering stipend-scholarships to recently incarcerated women and men: The Restorative Justice Ministry has inaugurated a scholarship program for those on probation or parole after serving time in prison. It is funded by a block grant from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development distributed by the California Catholic Conference to individual dioceses. The program is administered by the Archdiocese RJ Ministry and includes mentoring, spiritual direction opportunities and more. In collaboration, the non-profit Excell is offering smaller stipends and support as well. There are a limited number of scholarships. (Photo by MD Duran/Unsplash)
California Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed longtime political ally, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, to replace Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris in the U.S. Senate through 2022. Padilla, the married father of three boys, will be the Golden State's first Latino senator. He said "his early focus as senator would be to ensure aid flows to low-income communities and communities of color that have been disproportionately hurt by both the virus and the economic recession — a priority he attributed to his upbringing as the son of Mexican immigrants, a short-order cook and a house cleaner, neither of whom had more than an elementary school education," the SF Chronicle reported Tuesday. CalMatters lists five things to know here., including that Padilla was the author of the ban on single use plastic bags and authored the bill requiring nutritional information on fast food restaurant menus.
Join us Jan. 9 for Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral and to pray for life outside the new 'flagship' Planned Parenthood clinic at 1522 Bush Street in San Francisco: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will celebrate Mass at 8 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 9 at St. Mary’s Cathedral and bless the pilgrims who will then walk with the Archbishop praying the rosary from St. Mary’s Cathedral to the Bush Street Planned Parenthood clinic. The clinic is expected to open in 2021, perhaps as early as January. This will be the kick off of a monthly St. Mary’s Cathedral Mass and Rosary. Photo of 2020 prayer outside Planned Parenthood in San Rafael. (Photo by Dennis Callahan/Archdiocese of San Francisco Office of Human Life & Dignity)
Upcoming events:
Jan. 9 _ 8 a.m. Mass at Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption followed by Rosary walk to Bush Street Planned Parenthood clinic with Archbishop Cordileone. Info here.
Jan. 22 _ Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection for Unborn Children. Info here.
Jan. 27 _ 6:30 p.m. seminar on Human Trafficking via Zoom. More here.