Week Ten March 25th to March 29th
Overview of the is Week
Due Friday - Revision of Chapter 8 questions
This week we will view, conclude and discuss "The True Cost" in conjunction with Chapter 4 of your course text, Work and Workers Right (The Dignity of Work). We will be making the connections between Rights and Responsibilities and the Dignity of Work and why these themes are so important in a global economy and spiritual life.
Assignments:
1. There are questions to be competed for the film (Parts I, II and III) in the packet distributed last week. Please complete accordingly.
2. Please refer to the key videos from last week on "Solidarity" and the Common Good"
3. If need be, revise and re-submit your Chapter 8 questions by Friday.
4. Over break - "Firm up" Interview contacts and possible site visit. Compile questions to ask professionals.
Monday - A WORD on Solidarity
The last clip shows students from the same school as two of the teenage victims of the deadly mosque shooting
From the article below:
Okirano Tilaia, the head boy at Cashmere High School, which lost two students in the attack, cited Martin Luther King Jr. in his speech, saying he conquered people with love, peace and solidarity.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can,” Tilaia said. “And hatred cannot drive out hatred. Only love can.”
This haka, called Tahu Potiki, comes from the South Island Maori tribe Ngai Tahu, said Cashmere High Principal Mark Wilson. Tahu Potiki was an ancestor of Ngai Tahu, and the haka calls for his descendants to rise and claim their place in the new day, Wilson said. Being part of a haka group can be a powerful emotive moment, he said, one in which people are left uplifted and strengthened.
In some ways, the students' response to the attacks has been similar to the aftermath of last year's mass shooting at a school in Parkland, Florida, where it was the voices of the youth that rose above the din. The students of Parkland — around 30 of whom actually visited Christchurch last year — united to demand gun law reform. In Christchurch, the students have united in an utter rejection of the intolerance spewed by the white supremacist accused of the massacre.
"It melts my heart," 15-year-old Seraphim Tempest said after joining in Monday's performance of the Tahu Potiki. "It's just showing that everyone's the same here and we accept everyone."
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has encouraged students to turn to the haka in the wake of the attacks, particularly if they are struggling to express themselves.
"Never underestimate the power of just sending a message, looking out for someone, performing a haka," Ardern told students at Cashmere High after they performed the Tahu Potiki for her during a visit on Wednesday. "There is power in that, because in doing that, you are sending a message of solidarity and of support."
Solidarity helps us to see the “other” whether a person, people or nation not just as some kind of instrument, with a work capacity and physical strength to be exploited at low cost and then discarded when no longer useful, but as our “neighbor”, a “helper” (cf. Gen 2: 18-20), to be made a sharer, on a par with ourselves, in the banquet of life to which all are equally invited by God. Hence the importance of reawakening the religious awareness of individuals and peoples.
Solicitudo Rei Socialis (“On Social Concern”), Pope John Paul II, 1987, #39.
Prayer for Solidarity
Almighty and ever-living God,
empower your one human family to join hands
on our journey of faith.
Send us your spirit of hope,
so that we may work
to alleviate human suffering
and foster charity and justice
in our world.
Amen
Prayer for Solidarity :http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/prayers-and-devotions/prayers/prayer-for-solidarity.cfm
Distribution of Chapter questions & Quotes from Caritas in
Veritate (Charity inTruth) -
Discussion. What do do if you would like to re-
submit responses.
Full text of Charity in Truth:http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate.html
General Audience: Pope explains "Caritas in Veritate"
Tuesday - "The True Cost"
Discussion
Link to Work and Workers Rights:https://www.cctwincities.org/education-advocacy/catholic-social-teaching/notable-quotations/work-and-workers-rights/
Be sure to complete Parts I & II in film packet
Wednesday - "The True Cost" Conclusion
Discussion
Link to Laborem Exercens (On Human Work) Pope John Paul II:
Be sure to complete Part III of film packet
Thursday & Friday -
First half:
Final discussion of film responses and connections to Chapter 4
Second half: Praxis Group
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