SISTERS OF MERCY INVITE PUBLIC TO DAY OF PRAYER The public is invited to join the Sisters of Mercy and all members of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) in a day of contemplation and fasting on December 6 at Mount St. Mary, Watchung. Three different sites and times have been provided for participants: • McAuley Hall Health Care Center, 10:30 am - 11: 00 am; • Mount St. Mary Immaculate Conception Chapel, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; and • Mount St. Mary House of Prayer, 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm Throughout the country members, of the LCWR and their congregations are participating in a "rolling fast" that will ensure prayer and fasting for the church and world every day throughout the year. In addition to the daily rolling fast, an LCWR Call to Contemplation statement invites "all who share our passion for restoring right relationships to join us in contemplation and fasting" on two national days of prayer: the first Friday in Lent, March 2, and the first Friday in Advent, December 7, 2001. The purpose is to highlight the Jubilee theme of right relationships and to hold in prayer those suffering from oppression and poverty, war and violence, and to hold in prayer the sacredness of the earth. "We are praying for a greater sense of communion in today's church and world," said Sr. Mary Mollison, LCWR President. The LCWR Call to Contemplation statement goes on to say, "In the spirit of Jubilee we want to let the land lie fallow. We want to find a space in time and place with a community of believers to pray and fast together. We want to enter into contemplation and stir our God-given creativity so as to imagine new ways of responding in love." The LCWR Call to Contemplation statement and other resources may be found on the LCWR web site: www.lcwr.org.