Our Values
“People with heart, people with passion, people with peopleâ€
Participants in the New Zealand Edmund Rice Network endeavour to witness the following gospel values in everyday life and ministry:
Hospitable Faith Community
- Being welcoming, open and responsive to the Spirit moving
- Fostering a sense of belonging and acceptance
- Appreciating diversity by being inclusive
- Working together, moving forward, and growing in love
- Cultivating shared vision, beliefs and values
- Dealing with problems when they arise
Compassionate Heart:
- Treating each person as an encounter with God
- Witnessing a quality of presence that leaves people feeling valued
- Being available for others and nourishing ourselves
- Standing alongside and journeying with others in solidarity
- Demonstrating a great capacity to love and a willingness to forgive hurts
- Working to liberate others from oppression and injustice
Reflection:
- Getting together, sharing everyday experiences, and making meaning in light of the Gospel
- Learning from others
- Deepening sense of spirituality and mission
- Keeping the Edmund Rice story and the justice-seeking tradition alive
- Standing back to embrace and celebrate heart changing moments
- Strengthening personal faith by engaging in reflective processes that foster hope
- Realising the good news
Right Relationship:
- Acknowledging God’s presence among us
- Being grounded in prayer and reflection
- Courageous risk-taking to restore right order
- Cultivating energy and generosity for good
- Keeping an eye on the task and the bigger picture in sight
- Inventing new ways to meet current challenges
Committed Involvement/Service for Justice:
- Strengthening connections to open up pathways for others
- Creating people who are responsive to a call
- Building a more just and civil society
- Finding freedom in reaching out to and serving marginalised peoples
- Enjoying simplicity and having fun
- Working together we can achieve more
