Today is Danihy Day

Today is the 105th anniversary of the first induction of members into Alpha Sigma Nu (then known as Alpha Sigma Tau) on June 4, 1915.  This year, in honor of Rev. John Danihy, S.J., we share an Examine for Racial Justice.  

An Examine for Racial Justice:

§  Have I fully loved God and fully loved my neighbor as myself?

§  Have I caused pain to others by my actions or my words that offended my brother or my sister?

§  Have I done enough to inform myself about the sin of racism, its roots, and its historical and contemporary manifestations?  Have I opened my heart to see how unequal access to economic opportunity, jobs, housing, and education on the basis of skin color, race, or ethnicity, has denied and continues to deny the equal dignity of others?

§  Is there a root of racism within me that blurs my vision of who my neighbor is?

§  Have I ever witnessed an occasion when someone “fell victim” to personal, institutional, systematic or social racism and I did or said nothing, leaving the victim to address their pain alone?

§  Have I ever witnessed an occasion when someone “fell victim” to personal, institutional, systematic or social racism with me inflicting the pain, acting opposite of love of God and love of neighbor?

§  Have I ever lifted up and aided a person who “fell victim” to personal, institutional, systematic or social racism and paid a price for extending mercy to the other? How did I react? Did my faith grow? Am I willing to grow even more in faith through my actions?

By To Go Forth – a blog from the USCCB, Department of Justice, Peace & Human Development - inspired by Pope Francis