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- Matters
of the Heart:
Reconciling ourselves with our
World
- DIRECTIONAL
STATEMENTS -
XII AMASC World Congress 2002
- 1. PERSONAL
COMMITMENTS
- Believing that
everyone has a right to a life of dignity and that
everyone has an eternal destiny, we place ourselves at
the service of our sisters and borthers, in order to
create a more just and cohesive world community. We
affirm that women are the natural artisans of peace,
having an instinct for choosing life.
We offer this service:
- as ordinary people who can change the world,
remembering that the longest journey begins with the
first step
- by listening to the expression of differing
viewpoints, searching for the truth and stucturing
creative responses
- by seeking for reconciliation that challenges us to
acknowledge our own prejudices, and to reach out to
those who are different from us in a spirit of
bridge-building
- by living out our values at all levels of business
and professional life, balancing the claims of work
and family commitments
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- 2.
COLLABORATION
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- We will strive to
strengthen collaboration within and among local
Associations, national Associations and AMASC, and
with the Society of the Sacred Heart.
We will strengthen collaboration also with other
organisations having similar objectives (eg WUCWO and
OMAEC)
- through the mutuality of friendships
-through common projects
-through support for the United Nations Convention on
Human Rights. We ask the AMASC Board to encourage
national Associations to work towards ensuring that
their governments apply these Conventions in all
national and international corporate operations and
affairs, and to alert its national constituents to
human rights violations and unjust practices
-through the AMASC Board putting in place formal
structures to communicate directly with the Sophia
Commission and disseminating information regarding the
work of this Commission to all its national
constitutents
-by encouraging our membership to take a proactive
stand in working towards a greater participation for
women in the Church and in representing this concern
for the promotion of women's role in the Church
through appropriate Church structures
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- 3.
COMMUNICATION
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- We will strive to
maintain and develop communication among the
memberships
- through an up-to-date website
-through the contribution of individuals and local and
national groups to the website
-through the sharing of stories through the
website
-through the strengthening continued participation by
our young alumnae
-through inviting our alumni to be part of our
international alumnae/i community
-through AMASC encouraging national constituencies to
establish a formal local networking/mentoring
programme amongst its alumnae/i with the possibility
that this may lead to an international mentoring
network
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- 4.
SPIRITUALITY
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- To strive to live
a spirituality of the heart
-through contemplating the loving and compassionalte
Heart of Jesus in the Gospels
-by nourishing our faith through participating in
adult faith formation programmes, study8ing the
Scriptures, reading books on contemporary
spirituality
-by allowing ourselves to be touched by the misery and
suffering of our sisters and brothers
-by responding to this suffering as appropriate
through listening, showing empathy, reaching out, and
taking steps towards reconciling ourselves with our
world
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