ROME
National Catholic Reporter
Thomas C. Fox | May. 8, 2013 NCR Today
Mercedarian Missionaries Sister Filo Hirota called upon a group of global women religious leaders to further integrate peace and justice efforts into community life.
She spoke Sunday before a gathering of some 800 women at the triennial assembly of the International Union of Superiors General (UISG). Hirota has been a long time member of the UISG’s Peace, Justice and Integrity of Creation board (JPIC).
Peace and justice work is not one of many things we do, but “it is a way to live the consecrated life,” she told the women.
It is important and necessary, she said, that the peace and justice vision and commitment is owned by all the members of the congregation “and that an adequate structure be set up that would enable and facilitate living that commitment.”
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