Monday of the Fourth Week of Advent
What would a criminal justice system look like through a public health lens?
Is it a system that avoids unnecessary incarceration? A system that strengthens relationships between the confined and their families and communities? Is a just system that rehabilitates, and even heals, possible?
Let us pray for those imprisoned.
-Meditation by Indigenous Solidarity Collective Member Jessica Lemes da Silva.
The 2022 Advent Calendar is a project of CTA's Indigenous Solidarity Collective, a working group that addresses the Catholic Church's historical and current role in colonialization. To support more projects from working groups like this one, please consider making a contribution!
Call To Action's 2022 Advent Calendar, planned and written by the Indigenous Solidarity Collective, provides 27 days of prayer and study to lead into action and solidarity with Indigenous communities. Here is today's meditation.
Call to Action: 35-36
Justice
“35. We call upon the federal government to eliminate barriers to the creation of additional Aboriginal healing lodges within the federal correctional system.
36. We call upon the federal, provincial, and territorial governments to work with Aboriginal communities to provide culturally relevant services to inmates on issues such as substance abuse, family and domestic violence, and overcoming the experience of having been sexually abused.”
December 19th, 2022
Further Reading
The watercolor paintings featured on this calendar were created by Duane Yazzie, an artist of Hopi and Navajo ancestry. Yazzie creates artwork that reflects his Indigenous heritage and his childhood spent in the Southwest.
