The Catholic social teaching principle of Participation is recognising that everyone has a part to play in our communities. Promoting participation means recognising we each have something unique and important to contribute to society. We are called on to be active members of our local and global communities. All people have the right to participate in decisions that affect their lives. We have both rights and responsibilities. Rights are things that make life truly human- truly great. 

Promoting participation means recognising we each have something unique and important to contribute to society.

As human beings we live in community with others, growing together. We are called to be active members of our local, national and global communities to improve the well-being of all people.

We have a responsibility to be inclusive in our churches, our workplaces, our neighbourhoods and our decision-making processes. As communities we can work creatively to provide opportunities for all people to participate.

• And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day
  approaching.
  Hebrews 10:24-25

• Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.
  1 John 3:18

• So we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another.
  Romans 12:5