Extension magazine - Winter 2022
Our cover presents the artwork drawn by two groups of children who suffered horrendous tragedies in their communities this year: Ukraine and Uvalde, Texas. As we end a year marked by terror, violence and war, we invited them to lead us in reflection this Christmas season through their drawings and letters. Their art reveals how their faith offers them hope for a better future and shapes the way they see our God and our world.
Our cover presents the artwork drawn by two groups of children who suffered horrendous tragedies in their communities this year: Ukraine and Uvalde, Texas. As we end a year marked by terror, violence and war, we invited them to lead us in reflection this Christmas season through their drawings and letters. Their art reveals how their faith offers them hope for a better future and shapes the way they see our God and our world.
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24 INSPIRE<br />
Lumen Christi Recipient<br />
<strong>Extension</strong> | <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>2022</strong> 25<br />
JEAN FEDIGAN<br />
DIOCESE OF TUCSON,<br />
ARIZONA<br />
LEFT Father Jack<br />
Wall, president<br />
of Catholic<br />
<strong>Extension</strong> (left) and<br />
Bishop Edward<br />
Weisenburger of the<br />
Diocese of Tucson<br />
(right) celebrate<br />
Jean Fedigan as she<br />
received Catholic<br />
<strong>Extension</strong>’s Lumen<br />
Christi Award.<br />
Matthew 25:42-44. It is<br />
Read a spiritual eye exam. It is<br />
meant to determine how well we see the<br />
world and its obvious suffering.<br />
<strong>2022</strong> u 2023<br />
The hungry. The thirsty.<br />
You don’t have to look hard.<br />
The stranger. The naked.<br />
You don’t even have to go out of your<br />
way.<br />
The ill. The imprisoned.<br />
They are hidden in plain sight, within the<br />
span of our reach, just a heartbeat away.<br />
It is hard not to see them, really. It takes<br />
habitual indifference and a host of willful<br />
distractions to pass on by. Because our<br />
eyes are connected to our hearts, when we<br />
pass on by our hearts skip a beat. And God,<br />
whose intention always seeks to marry the<br />
heart that is ready—well, God’s heart skips a<br />
beat too. And our capacity to be daughters<br />
and sons of God is diminished. An outbreak<br />
of love is stymied.<br />
We need examples. We need someone<br />
who has aced Matthew 25, someone who<br />
has opened their eyes, engaged their heart,<br />
Lumen<br />
Christi<br />
AWARD<br />
RECIPIENT<br />
Jean Fedigan, Catholic <strong>Extension</strong>’s<br />
<strong>2022</strong>-2023 Lumen Christi Award<br />
recipient, embraces a woman<br />
under the care of her ministry,<br />
Sister José Women’s Center.<br />
EYES TO SEE<br />
THE INVISIBLE PEOPLE
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