Creating Access and Inclusion in Worship

QUOTES FOR INCLUSION AWARENESS DAY

"I ask that you continue in your efforts to make ours a more welcoming and participatory church for everyone."
Francis Cardinal George
Inclusion Awareness Day Letter to Parishes

"Inclusion begins in our hearts. It begins with affirmation…When we open our hearts and our community to the gifts each person brings, we are all strengthened."
Joseph Cardinal Bernardin
Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors

"One of the great gifts of people with visible disabilities is that they help those of us with invisible disabilities to get in touch with them. And to realize that I am impatient, that I am full of anxieties and fears, that I have my addictions, that I have my broken relationships, that I am poor."
Henri Nouwen
The Vulnerable Journey

"Liturgy is the place where people in their brokenness and weakness meet and discover that right where they come together in mutual vulnerability, Jesus himself is there."
Henri Nouwen
The Vulnerable Journey