Eucharist and justice workshop 5. Being the body of Christ in the world Photo: Shutterstock.com Leader: Welcome to all of you. We are going to spend some time exploring how we can be the body of Christ in the world, thinking about how this theme links to the Mass and in particular, the Dismissal. Let us start by introducing ourselves – our name and why we are here today. When each person has introduced themselves, the group begins the workshop with the following prayer which they say together: Christ has no body but yours, no hands, no feet on earth but yours, yours are the eyes with which he looks compassion on this world, yours are the feet with which he walks to do good, yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now but yours, no hands, no feet on earth but yours, yours are the eyes with which he looks compassion on this world. Christ has no body now on earth but yours. St Teresa of Avila Leader: We remember the words from the Dismissal: Reader one: Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life. All: Thanks be to God. Leader: We now listen to a story from CAFOD’s work, which highlights how we can transform the world around us and be the body of Christ in our world: Reader two: The following is taken from a talk given by Tania Dalton, a CAFOD staff member, during Lent. “I returned a week ago from visiting CAFOD projects in El Salvador and Nicaragua. I was accompanying a group of young people aged 21-22, who are volunteering for a year in the UK in youth retreat centres, a school and a university to help children, teenagers and young adults reflect on faith and how to put it into action for social justice. They had the opportunity to visit CAFOD projects overseas to see how communities are transforming their challenges into
Eucharist and justice workshop 5. Being the body of Christ in the world Photo: Shutterstock.com Leader: Welcome to all of you. We are going to spend some time exploring how we can be the body of Christ in the world, thinking about how this theme links to the Mass and in particular, the Dismissal. Let us start by introducing ourselves – our name and why we are here today. When each person has introduced themselves, the group begins the workshop with the following prayer which they say together: Christ has no body but yours, no hands, no feet on earth but yours, yours are the eyes with which he looks compassion on this world, yours are the feet with which he walks to do good, yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now but yours, no hands, no feet on earth but yours, yours are the eyes with which he looks compassion on this world. Christ has no body now on earth but yours. St Teresa of Avila Leader: We remember the words from the Dismissal: Reader one: Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life. All: Thanks be to God. Leader: We now listen to a story from CAFOD’s work, which highlights how we can transform the world around us and be the body of Christ in our world: Reader two: The following is taken from a talk given by Tania Dalton, a CAFOD staff member, during Lent. “I returned a week ago from visiting CAFOD projects in El Salvador and Nicaragua. I was accompanying a group of young people aged 21-22, who are volunteering for a year in the UK in youth retreat centres, a school and a university to help children, teenagers and young adults reflect on faith and how to put it into action for social justice. They had the opportunity to visit CAFOD projects overseas to see how communities are transforming their challenges into
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