Solidarity Sunday
Solidarity Sunday will be celebrated at the University of Notre Dame at all Masses. For the Fall of 2009, with the date to be determined at a later time.
Solidarity Sunday is as an annual event each Fall semester that highlights our community’s Spirit of Inclusion for gay, lesbian, and bisexual students, faculty, and staff. This event has become an important symbolic event for the Notre Dame community.
The building of a family demands that we reach beyond ourselves in order to accept and learn from all the members of our community. Solidarity Sunday, specifically, calls us to reflect on the Church’s teaching that homosexual persons be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity and that every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard be avoided. This event expresses the commitment of Notre Dame to stand with Christ, in community, with all our brothers and sisters.
The goal is to create a campus climate in which all students and faculty feel a part of the Notre Dame family. You can show your support for this event by accepting a prayer card, with attached ribbon, at Mass on Solidarity Sunday. By joining our hearts and voices together in this prayer, and by displaying this ribbon on backpacks, briefcases, and office and dorm doors, we reveal why we call Notre Dame a family.