Announcements:
WE HAVE MOVED
New and exciting changes are coming.
To better serve you and to start this new chapter in CMFN: we have created a new website.
www.cmfnsembrador.org
To better serve you and to start this new chapter in CMFN: we have created a new website.
www.cmfnsembrador.org
Special Message |
migrants-refugees day |
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During the past couple months, Fr Tom Florek, sj, the incoming executive director of CMFN, has been on a mission to listen & learn through visits with migrant farmworkers, H-2A contracted workers, parishes, volunteers, and social organizations serving the farmworker community in the Dioceses of Boise, Yakima, Stockton and Tucson.
In addition Tom, together with the diocesan pastoral agents, the CMFN board and friends, is reading the signs of the times to discern the next short term strategic steps to the migrant pastoral ministry. You, our friends and colleagues are invited to support the renewed mission of the CMFN. |
Even though the main event has passed. There are several lessons we can walk away with. We invite you to start with His Holiness message.
Message of His Holiness Pope Francis: 107th World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2021 In the Encyclical Fratelli Tutti, I expressed a concern and a hope that remain uppermost in my thoughts: “Once this health crisis passes, our worst response would be to plunge even more deeply into feverish consumerism and new forms of egotistic self-preservation. God willing, after all this, we will think no longer in terms of ‘them’ and ‘those’, but only ‘us’” (No. 35). |
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The life of migrant farmworker families continues to grow more difficult in these times of political and social unrest here in the United States. While the normal tensions of the constant moving from state to state following the harvest; interruption of children’s schooling multiple times per year; and difficulty in linking up with local Churches due to language, cultural, economic and social differences serves to separate our migrant families. But these are the very ones that the Gospel of Matthew encourages us to embrace …” Whatever you did to the least of my brothers and sisters, you did to me,” MT 25:40
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