JPIC Resources
Tools for Living Justice, Peace, and Care for Creation
Franciscan Resources for Action and Reflection
In this section, you will find a wide collection of educational, pastoral, and reflective resources focused on the values of Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation (JPIC). They are designed to support communities, JPIC animators, pastoral teams, and committed individuals, from a deeply Franciscan perspective.
Brothers and sisters: A guide to living justice, peace, and care for creation
Inspired by the Canticle of the Creatures of St. Francis of Assisi and the values of Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation, this guide offers a weekly journey that unites prayer, contemplation, and action. While it can be used at any time of the year, it is presented in a special way during the Season of Creation (Sept 1 – Oct 4).
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Poor and Lesser Ones: Where Are We?
The booklet is the result of the collaboration of the General Bursar, the Secretariat for Formation and Studies and JPIC Office...
Franciscans and Environmental Justice
This resource helps the brothers to understand what environmental justice is. It includes four significant stories: mining in Indonesia, deforestation in the Amazon...
Spirit of Assisi
In recent years, as an Order, we celebrated and promoted this ecumenical and interreligious prayer in different places of the world...
The cry of the earth and the cries of the poor
While this short document is rooted in the Franciscan and biblical traditions, it intentionally expresses that same tradition in partnership with contemporary science.
An Aid: JPIC Quotes
Collection of texts from the Constitutions and General Statutes (1985, 2004), the Franciscan Ratio Formationis (1991, 2002), and the Ratio Studiorum (2001)...
Pilgrims and Strangers in this world
This resource dates from 2008 but is still a very worthwhile resource for the study of Chapter 4 of the OFM General Constitutions.
Franciscan Management of Finances
This subsidy elaborates on the issue of the ethical use of financial resources. It’s obvious for us Franciscans that economic resources should be acquired...
Guidelines for the animation of JPIC (Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation)
It is a guide for animators and for those interested in JPIC...