Issued in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the pastoral letter The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response, this new reflection finds the bishops building on the peacemaking foundations of their earlier work, reflecting on lessons learned, and exploring new challenges to protecting the lives and dignity of the vulnerable in our midst.

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• Create a quilt of pictures based on the themes of The Harvest of Justice Is Sown with Peace.
• Discuss the Church's teaching on war and peace using The Harvest of Justice Is Sown with Peace as the starting point for the conversation.
• Develop a song or skit that presents the main themes of The Harvest of Justice Is Sown with Peace and present it to your youth group or younger children in your parish.
• Review the principles on peacemaking in The Harvest of Justice Is Sown with Peace. Identify ways in which your school, parish, youth group, and local community can be a peacemaking community.