Welcome to the July 28, 2021 edition of Just 3 Things, the weekly social action newsletter of the Office of Human Life & Dignity. If this email was forwarded to you, and you'd like to receive it each week, please click here.
Valerie Schmalz
Director
Office of Human Life & Dignity
Archdiocese of San Francisco
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The Refugee Team in the Tokyo Olympics is a reminder of the many people who are displaced worldwide. Twenty nine athletes from 11 nations are competing in the Olympics this summer, representing the 26.4 million refugees worldwide. “It is a reminder to the world that the human race is in a sense a family; that we have a world community and a significant portion of our family has been displaced because of persecution or some other fear that they’re undergoing,” Bishop James Johnston of Kansas City-St. Joseph told Crux. (Photo credit to Olympics website)
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The two Capuchin Franciscan churches -- the National Shrine of St. Francis and Our Lady of Angels in Burlingame -- are organizing the FIRST walking pilgrimage for the Way of St. Francis on Sept. 18, the feast of the stigmata of St. Francis. The walk is in partnership with Modern Catholic Pilgrim. The pilgrimage through the city is to honor the great saint's reception of the first documented stigmata (the marks left on Christ's body during the Crucifixion).
New Opportunity to reach an audience of Bay Area Catholics!!!! Purchase an ad in the inaugural edition of the glossy Catholic San Francisco Magazine which will arrive in nearly 50,000 Catholic parishioners' mailboxes in September. Contact Mary Podesta: podestam@sfarch.org for more information.
What's coming up:
- Sept.17 _ Restorative Justice Reentry Conference, St. Mary's Cathedral. Learn more here.