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A Call to Action

The world knows and probably feels the challenges in the USA to those striving to live a morally good life based on gospel values. The common good is in serious question as many government programs designed to help those poor, falling in the cracks of survival struggles are being tossed aside with cuts in food, education, housing, health care and immigrant populations live in fear of being deported without the chance to appeal their status. Greater still is the struggle to keep alive a treasured democracy where free speech, the right to vote and one's rights to a just fair hearing and so much more, is in the balance of being discarded.

Our present governmental system is in chaos with legal challenges flooding the courts. These challenges are so many that one can barely keep informed of what presidential decisions have been accepted or put on hold. After these few months since the elections, the American people are beginning to respond because our elected Congress seems paralyzed to take a stance that offends.

Finally, on April 5th, a national "Hands Off" day of protest was announced. Over 1300 such rally points were noted to have occurred. To my knowledge, New Jersey had 25 such rallies. Our Sisters participated in the Galloway, South Jersey and the Morristown, North Jersey rallies.

It seems that in our "golden years" we can still physically contribute with our voice and presence actually causing us to reminisce of the "old days" when we were younger and travelled to DC. with the same prophetic spirit. While not everyone could manage standing for 3 hours in the cold, rainy day everyone was present in the spirit of prayer for all attending and for a peaceful and fruitful resolution to witness to their values.