CAMPUS MINISTRY | On June 16, 2020, President Snyder declared Juneteenth a university holiday and asked that it be “a day of reflection and action.” In response, LMU’s Campus Ministry humbly offers its own prayer of witness and commitment. Compiled from our individual voices, we come together to denounce racism in all forms and to profess collectively that Black Lives Matter.
Inspired by LMU’s Roman Catholic identity and the heritage of our sponsoring religious communities, we have created a virtual witness and prayer wall where our individual and collective voices may affirm unequivocally the inherent dignity of each and every person and also commit ourselves to the service of faith and the promotion of justice for all of God’s people.
If you would like to contribute your own voice to Campus Ministry’s virtual “witness and prayer” wall, please feel free to submit your statements here.
The image above is titled “Juneteenth,” and was created in 2005 by artist Charles Criner. Since 1997, Criner has been the Artist-in-Residence at the Museum of Printing History in Houston, Texas. The scenes of his art lithographs, the medium he prefers, are biographical images pulled from both childhood memories and the artist’s immediate environment. His artwork is included in numerous prestigious private collections throughout the United States. For more info, please visit https://foltzgallery.com/artist/charles-criner.