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Service Groups at Karen House
Urban plunge groups and service trips will typically experience a combination of these elements while at Karen House. Also, see our Resources page for some handouts for service groups.
- Arrive: house tour, introduction to Karen House and the Catholic Worker
- House Work: organizing, cleaning, purging, cooking
- Time with guests: meal times, tutoring school-aged kids, playing with younger kids
- Mass: we have a Catholic Mass on Tuesdays, once a month, it is a community-led liturgy
- Social Justice: we'll attend an ongoing peace vigil, show a film on a social justice issue, and talk about the interconnectedness of justice and service
- Time with community: we typically give several talks to service groups on topics like:
- Why I came to the Catholic Worker
- Poverty and Homelessness
- Introduction to Privilege
- Faith and Action
- Catholic Worker Tenets (often includes pacifism, personalism, building the new society- see the Aims and Means of the Catholic Worker here)
- Neighborhood Tour (check out the different projects in our neighborhood here)
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