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Posters and Bulletin InsertsPrayers for Healing and Protection
- Prayer for Healing Victims of Abuse English and Spanish
- Rosary for Healing and Protection English Spanish
- Novena for Healing and Protection English Spanish
- Creating a Safe Faith Environment
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Kids Need Good Fruit
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Uniquely and Specially Created
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Creating an Environment of Respect Responsibility and Caring
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Creating a Faith Environment Safe from Physical Aggression
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Creating a Trauma Sensitive Faith Environment
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Child Abuse Prevention Month Calendars
- 2016 Child Abuse Prevention Month in the Year of Mercy
- 2017 Child Abuse Prevention Month - Promoting Life and Dignity
- 2018 Child Abuse Prevention Month as Missionary Disciples
- 2019 Child Abuse Prevention Month as Intentional Catholics
- 2020 Child Abuse Prevention Month - Maintaining Healthy Connections
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Creating Connections Through Safe Stable Nurturing Relationships
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Creating an Environment of Authentic Love - Posters
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Agape Love Letters
Often when we think of love letters we think of romance and passion – eros or erotic love. As Catholic Christians we are called to something more. We all share a common vocation - the Universal Call to Love and Communion. In this calling we strive to love others as Christ loved us, giving of ourselves freely and selflessly – welcoming others completely and unconditionally. This God-like love to which we are called is known as agape love. Agape love images God, it is centered in Christ, and it is enabled by the Holy Spirit. It is through our expressions of agape love that others encounter Christ. Provide an encounter with Christ’s love for someone who has experienced abuse by writing them an Agape Love Letter. Include some of the following expressions of love:
Dear Child of God,
- You are unique, special, gifted and graced – a never to be repeated wonder in all of God’s creation.
- I believe you and I love you.
- God loves you and does not desire for you to be harmed.
- The things that you experienced were not what God had planned for you and the pain you have endured is painful to Him.
- Nothing that has ever happened to you or ever will happen to you can change who you are – a beloved child of God.
- God’s plan for you was to experience only love and that is still His plan.
- God is more powerful that anyone you have ever encountered, and He loves you more than anyone you have ever known.
- I will be praying for you – for your continued protection and healing.
- May you know God’s profound love for you.
Send your letter(s) to the Diocesan Child Protection Office to be shared with individuals who access Victim Assistance services in our Diocese and throughout the country.
Diocese of Grand Island
Child Protection Office
2708 Old Fair Road
Grand Island NE 68803
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Scripture ReflectionsHoly Week 2024
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Children need heroes, but not the kind that have superpowers. Children need adults in their lives who live their vocation... adults who are on the path to sainthood... adults who exhibit heroic virtue. Living a life of heroic virtue does not entail being perfect, but rather striving to live a life of virtue despite sinful tendencies and temptations. Children imitate adults who live lives of heroic virtue, not because they never fall, but because, through the grace of God, they don't stay down when they fall. When we strive to exhibit heroic virtue we not only create a safe environment for our children, but teach them how rise up, brush off the dirt, and move forward.
WordsHeroic Virtue Bookmarks - pdf
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Heroic Virtue Tree
Now through January 3, 2023 view the Diocese of Grand Island Child Protection Office Heroic Virtue Tree! This year's entry features ornaments hand-crafted from recycled office supplies including outdated CDs, cardboard shipping boxes, newspapers, scrap paper, and discarded transparency film. For more details on the exhibit go to: https://stuhrmuseum.org/experience/current-exhibits/fantasy-of-trees/
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April is Child Abuse Prevention Month
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The Way: Stations of the Cross for Survivors of Abuse
“The Cross is the word through which God has responded to evil in the world.
Sometimes it may seem as though God does not react to evil, as if he is silent.
And yet, God has spoken, he has replied, and his answer is the Cross of Christ:
a word which is love, mercy, forgiveness.”
Pope Francis, Good Friday Address, March 29, 2013
Abuse and exploitation are all too common in our struggling world. Christ knows our pain. Through his Passion Christ experienced every conceivable hurt. In His Resurrection Christ shows us the way to hope and healing. Whether you have personally experienced the pain and suffering of abuse, are walking with a loved one who has, or are seeking to find the way to heal our suffering world, please join us in praying The Way: Stations of the Cross for Survivors of Abuse (Sue Stubbs, MS, NCC).
Pray with us at:
https://youtu.be/2GeJ8P_FRxw
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What is Human Trafficking?
Human trafficking is a crime against humanity. We must unite our efforts to free victims and stop this crime that has become ever more aggressive, that threatens not just individuals, but the foundational values of society.
- Pope Francis
Take time this month to learn more about trafficking:- US Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking
- Shared Hope International
- United States Conference of Catholic Bishops - Anti-Trafficking Program
- Fight the New Drug
- Covenant Eyes
- Trafficking in Nebraska
And join in the annual Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking, February 8, 2020.
National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month and Day of Prayer Toolkit
Did you know men and boys can be victims of sex trafficking too?
Often when we think of sex trafficking we imagine a victim who is young, foreign, and female. Trafficking affects all countries and genders... read more.
If you, or someone you know, are a victim of trafficking help is available, contact:
The National Traffikcing hotline: 1-888-373-7888
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children: 1-800-843-5678
The National Runaway Switchboard: 1-800-RUNAWAY
The Nebraska Abuse Hotline: 1-800-652-1999
