Social Justice & Service
Social Justice & Service are integral to our faith and our being a people fully alive. We understand the deep connection between justice and faith. We long to integrate this in our lives through prayer, intentional theological reflection rooted in social analysis and the scriptures, an ongoing commitment to acts of service, and a life-style of loving solidarity with the poor and for others. Through service and acts of social justice, we come to discover our deepest selves, build personal relationships with others, and humbly strive to grow closer to God.
Therefore, we offer a variety of programs to help engage and integrate justice and the role of service in our lives. Our Justice & Service Programs are geared to learning together through active participation, direct service, and acts of justice. We strive to understand the role we individually and collectively play in promoting a more just society. Together we strive to act in simple, but concrete, ways to change our own lives while impacting public policies that can make a difference in the areas of homelessness, hunger, violence, poverty, immigration reform, and fair trade.
We believe in creating a more just world together, but know that it begins primarily with our own transformation. We strive to engage ourselves and other students in transformative justice and faith-filled experiences. We long to develop student leaders with a spirit for others through our service opportunities and justice activities. Theological reflection grounded in prayer, social analysis, scripture, mediation, and open discussion is key to fostering a greater understanding and integrating service and justice in our community programs and even more importantly in our daily lives. We genuinely seek to develop a faith and communal spirit grounded and committed to service and justice as essential components of our lifestyles, our spirituality, our LMU community, and a love of the poor and others.
To learn more about some of the LMU Campus Ministry Social Justice and Service Programs, we encourage you to check out the accompanying web-pages including our monthly De Colores Service Trips to Mexico, the weekly “Feed the Hungry” lunch distribution to the homeless in Santa Monica, our Human Rights Coalition, the weekend Service Retreat to Skid Row, the promotion of awareness and social justice issues through the student run Passion Magazine, the annual Jesuit Teach-In/SOA weekend, and other great opportunities.
Stop by the Social Justice Ministry & Service office in Malone 210 today
Or Join the HRC and/or De Colores Facebook Groups for regular updates of upcoming events!