Social Justice Week 2023 - 2026

Imagine Peace For All | Pohewatia te Rangimārie mō te Katoa
Social Justice Week 2023–2025

For three years, our Social Justice Week learning focused on peace — rangimārie. Each year built on the last, moving outward from the personal to the global.

  • 2023 — Peace Begins With You! We learned that peace begins with us, and grows from a loving personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

  • 2024 — Choose Forgiveness, Know Peace We focused on the importance of forgiveness and reconciliation, especially in our relationships with others.

  • 2025 — Let's Build Peace Together! We widened our view to global peace, and looked at how we can take action and build peace together.

Resources from each of these years remain available below.

Social Justice Week 2025 Resources

Cover page of a pamphlet for Social Justice Week 2025 with illustrations of diverse people around the words 'PEACE' and 'RANGIMĀRIRE,' promoting a peace and justice theme, with logos for Social Justice Week 2025 and Caritas New Zealand.
Liturgy Guide
Cover of the Social Justice Week 2025 Reflection Guide featuring diverse illustrated people forming the words 'PEACE' and 'RANGIMĀRIE'. The guide promotes peace and justice, with messages in English and Māori, and omics logo of Social Justice Week 2025 and Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand.
Reflection Guide (online version)
Illustration for Social Justice Week 2025 Reflection Guide, featuring diverse children and adults around large 3D text reading 'PEACE' and 'RANGIMĀRIRE,' with the theme 'Imagine Peace for All: Let's Build Peace Together!'
Reflection Guide (print version)
A black circular logo with a white cross and a pinwheel design in the center, surrounded by the text "Social Justice Week 2025"
Voices of the Pacific video
Poster for Social Justice Week, September 7-13, 2025, featuring Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand logo and message about building peace and social justice.
Bulletin blurb
Illustration of diverse people of all ages and backgrounds, with children and elders, holding hands or carrying books, around a large peace sign, promoting peace and justice. Text reads 'IMAGINE FOR ALL' and 'POHEWATIA TE RANGIMĀRIE MŌ TE KATOA,' with logos for Caritas and Social Justice Week.
Poster with 2025 brick
Statement from New Zealand Catholic Bishops for Social Justice Week 2025 emphasizing peace, prayer, kindness, and support for those suffering, with quotes from scripture and Pope John XIV.
Bishops Statement

Social Justice Week 2024 Resources

Illustration of diverse people forming the word 'PEACE' with blocks, with a banner reading 'LITURGY GUIDE' and a subtitle: 'Imagine Peace for All: Choose forgiveness, know peace.' Additional text in an African language below.
Liturgy Guide
Illustration of diverse people surrounding large letters spelling 'PEACE,' with a banner labeled 'REFLECTION GUIDE' and a message promoting peace, forgiveness, and understanding.
Reflection Guide
A printed accessibility checklist with a title in bold 'Accessibility Checklist', explaining guidelines for making a church accessible. It includes sections on 'Accessible Journeys' with questions about accessible routes, mobility parking, screen use, written materials, space for mobility aids, and seating accommodations, each with checkboxes for yes or no
Accessibility Checklist
Text-based flyer promoting Social Justice Week from September 8 to 14, 2024, encouraging forgiveness, reconciliation, and peace, hosted by New Zealand Catholic Bishops with a link to a website for more information.
Newsletter Insert
An illustration promoting social justice and peace, featuring diverse people including children and elderly adults, holding signs with words like 'truth', 'hope', 'faith', and 'love'. The word 'PEACE' is depicted with blocks containing words such as 'dignity', 'hope', 'integrity', and 'self-control'. The background is light blue with a prominent message 'IMAGINE FOR ALL' and a slogan 'CHOOSE FORGIVENESS, KNOW PEACE'. Logos of Caritas New Zealand and Social Justice Week are also present.
Poster with Brick

Video Prayer Resources 2024

These prayers are in four languages - Ngā karakia i ngā reo e whā

English, Te Reo Māori, NZ Sign Language, Tongan

Peace Prayers (from school resources)

The Lord’s Prayer

Prayer of St Francis of Assisi

2024 Video Reflection Resources

We asked Catholic parishioners and students from across the country reflection questions about forgiveness and reconciliation in our lives and in our faith. These reflection videos show the six key messages we found:

Key Messages - Ngā Kupu Matua:

Jesus Christ serves as the ultimate model of forgiveness and reconciliation.

We are called to forgive others as an expression of God’s love, just as God forgives us.

Through love, repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation, we build a path to lasting peace.

The Sacrament of Reconciliation is a sacred means of experiencing God’s love and forgiveness.

Building peace requires forgiveness.

Choosing forgiveness can be difficult, but with open hearts and minds we can know peace.

Social Justice Week 2023 Resources

Cover of a Social Justice Week 2023 reflection booklet featuring illustrations of diverse people holding peace symbols and books, with the words "PEACE" and "RANGIMĀRIE" in large letters, promoting peace and reconciliation.
Reflection Booklet
Illustration promoting Social Justice Week 2023 with diverse community members around words 'PEACE' and 'RANGIMĀRIRE', featuring people of various ages and cultural backgrounds, including children, adults, and elders, in a peaceful and inclusive setting.
Liturgy Guide
Two drawings of bricks with messages. The top brick has
Peace begins with you! 2023 Brick

Previous Years’ Parish Resources:

Social Justice Week 2022: Say No to Racism. We are one in Christ

Social Justice Week 2021: A Culture of Encounter: Be the Church

Social Justice Week 2020: Easy as CST: Unlocking the Church’s potential

Social Justice Week 2019: Fair, You Say? Seeking fairness in an unfair world

Social Justice Week 2018: Enabling Communities. Everyone has a part to play.