CONTACT:  Delis Alejandro  |  310-566-1530  |  t  

JustFaith is an intensive and successful model of justice education and spiritual formation that consists of weekly small group meetings and employs books, videos, speakers, discussion, prayer, retreats, and hands-on experiences. The intent is to provide a tapestry of learning opportunities that emphasize and enliven the remarkable justice tradition of the Catholic Church. Participants have the privilege of becoming a community with others and sharing a journey of faith and compassion that is both life-giving and challenging. Together the small group explores the Gospel call to compassion and justice.

St. Monica Catholic Community has hosted over an 18-year period over 30 JustFaith programs. 

Upcoming Activities

 Upcoming Activities

 Just Faith Sacred Land: Food and Farming

 Coming Spring 2026!

Hosted by the St. Monica Green Team, this JustFaith program invites participants to explore our deep connection with the land and our shared responsibility to care for it. Program will be held on Zoom.

In small groups, participants learn how food and farming practices impact the climate crisis, marginalized communities, and their own health and spiritual wellbeing. Together, they discover practical ways to support, advocate for, and implement sustainable practices in everyday settings—whether at work, in congregations, apartment complexes, or neighborhoods.

Each participant develops a personal plan of action, such as starting a composting program with neighbors, building a community garden, or advocating for policies that promote sustainable food and farming.

Join us in cultivating justice, resilience, and hope—one seed, one meal, one community at a time. 

Course Outline

Session 1: From Individualism to Interconnectedness

Participants celebrate their interconnectedness with one another and with the land. Narrates the history of Native American, Black, and Hispanic land loss and dislocation. Participants discern how they can work toward restoration and healing for themselves, our nation, and Creation itself. The group learns about industrial farming practices, including pesticides, GMOs, and soil degradation

Session 2: Whose Land?  

Narrates the history of Native American, Black, and Hispanic land loss and dislocation. Participants discern how they can work toward restoration and healing for themselves, our nation, and Creation itself.

Session 3: Soil and Seeds 

The group learns about industrial farming practices, including pesticides, GMOs, and soil degradation.

Session 4: Livestock 

Participants explore meat production’s impact on human health, workers, and the climate crisis, in order to re-imagine how they might live out God’s intention for our relationship with land, animals, and each other.

Session 5: Buy Local 

After hearing from a guest speaker, the group explores where their food comes from and how it got to their plates, so that they can make decisions that better support the health of their neighbors, the global community, their own families, and our planetary home

Session 6: “Big Ag” and Public Policy 

How does government policy affect farmers in the U.S. and around the world? How does it contribute to the climate crisis? Participants discern ways to influence policy and organize for change.

Session 7: Urban Gardening 

Introduces participants to models for urban agriculture and home gardening, giving them the tips and tools they need to get started.

Session 8: Taking Action 

The group discerns action steps they will take as individuals and as a small group, to help create healthy communities and a healthy planet.

Added to the schedule will be an orientation session and an immersion experience. You will learn more about these two sessions once registered for the course.

Books and Materials

Earth Prayers: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations from Around the World

https://justfaith.org/product/earth-prayers/

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

https://justfaith.org/product/earth-prayers/

Registration

You register directly with JustFaith Ministries.  Registration information will be provided in the spring.

If you do not already have an account with JustFaith Ministries, you will have to create one.

Questions?

Contact Delis Alejandro, Pastoral Associate, at  

CONTACT:  Delis Alejandro  |  310-566-1530  |  t  

JustFaith is an intensive and successful model of justice education and spiritual formation that consists of weekly small group meetings and employs books, videos, speakers, discussion, prayer, retreats, and hands-on experiences. The intent is to provide a tapestry of learning opportunities that emphasize and enliven the remarkable justice tradition of the Catholic Church. Participants have the privilege of becoming a community with others and sharing a journey of faith and compassion that is both life-giving and challenging. Together the small group explores the Gospel call to compassion and justice.

 

St. Monica Catholic Community has hosted over an 18-year period over 30 JustFaith programs. 

 

Upcoming Activities

 

 Upcoming Activities

 Just Faith Sacred Land: Food and Farming

 Coming Spring 2026!

 

 

Hosted by the St. Monica Green Team, this JustFaith program invites participants to explore our deep connection with the land and our shared responsibility to care for it. Program will be held on Zoom.

 

In small groups, participants learn how food and farming practices impact the climate crisis, marginalized communities, and their own health and spiritual wellbeing. Together, they discover practical ways to support, advocate for, and implement sustainable practices in everyday settings—whether at work, in congregations, apartment complexes, or neighborhoods.

 

Each participant develops a personal plan of action, such as starting a composting program with neighbors, building a community garden, or advocating for policies that promote sustainable food and farming.

 

Join us in cultivating justice, resilience, and hope—one seed, one meal, one community at a time. 

 

 

Course Outline

 

Session 1: From Individualism to Interconnectedness

 

Participants celebrate their interconnectedness with one another and with the land. Narrates the history of Native American, Black, and Hispanic land loss and dislocation. Participants discern how they can work toward restoration and healing for themselves, our nation, and Creation itself. The group learns about industrial farming practices, including pesticides, GMOs, and soil degradation

 

Session 2: Whose Land?  

 

Narrates the history of Native American, Black, and Hispanic land loss and dislocation. Participants discern how they can work toward restoration and healing for themselves, our nation, and Creation itself.

 

Session 3: Soil and Seeds 

 

The group learns about industrial farming practices, including pesticides, GMOs, and soil degradation.

 

Session 4: Livestock 

 

Participants explore meat production’s impact on human health, workers, and the climate crisis, in order to re-imagine how they might live out God’s intention for our relationship with land, animals, and each other.

 

Session 5: Buy Local 

 

After hearing from a guest speaker, the group explores where their food comes from and how it got to their plates, so that they can make decisions that better support the health of their neighbors, the global community, their own families, and our planetary home

 

Session 6: “Big Ag” and Public Policy 

 

How does government policy affect farmers in the U.S. and around the world? How does it contribute to the climate crisis? Participants discern ways to influence policy and organize for change.

 

Session 7: Urban Gardening 

 

Introduces participants to models for urban agriculture and home gardening, giving them the tips and tools they need to get started.

 

Session 8: Taking Action 

 

The group discerns action steps they will take as individuals and as a small group, to help create healthy communities and a healthy planet.

 

 

Added to the schedule will be an orientation session and an immersion experience. You will learn more about these two sessions once registered for the course.

 

 

Books and Materials

 

Earth Prayers: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations from Around the World

https://justfaith.org/product/earth-prayers/

 

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

https://justfaith.org/product/earth-prayers/

 

 

Registration

 

You register directly with JustFaith Ministries.  Registration information will be provided in the spring.

 

If you do not already have an account with JustFaith Ministries, you will have to create one.

 

 

 

Questions?

 

Contact Delis Alejandro, Pastoral Associate, at  

 

 

Background on JustFaith Ministries

 

 

JustFaith Ministries is a nonprofit organization that forms, informs, and transforms people of faith by offering programs and resources that sustain them in their compassionate commitment to build a more just and peaceful world. They offer a variety of programs and resources that teach and inform on the justice tradition of the Catholic Church and Catholic Social Teaching. JustFaith Ministries is located in Louisville, Kentucky, and can be contacted at https://justfaith.org/ or by phone at (502) 429-0865.