Wow!!! Summer flew by and here we are welcoming the season of Autumn, the International Day of Peace and looking ahead to the Feast of St. Francis and yes, we are already sharing information with you about our upcoming Advent reflection booklet. It almost seems too early yet I know folks need to plan ahead so I ask your understanding - Summer flew by - maybe now is the time to think ahead.
Let's look ahead together:
For your Feast of St. Francis Blessings:
A Prayer for Global Restoration
Good and Gracious God,
Source of all life, all creation is charged with your Divine Energy.
Ignite your spark within us
that we may know ourselves
as truly human and holy
irrevocably part of the
Web of Life.....
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and as we plan a little farther ahead:
We asked our four authors to reflect on this Advent season's readings and to share from their perspective and experiences, focusing as well on Pax Christi's Spirituality of Nonviolence and Peacemaking initiative.
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About the Authors:
WEEK 1
Darleen Pryds, Ph.D. is professor of Christian Spirituality and History at the Franciscan School of Theology in Berkeley and Oceanside. Her research focuses on the history of lay preaching especially within the Franciscan tradition. Her most recent book, Women of the Streets: Early Franciscan Women and their Mendicant Vocation (2010) explores and reflects on the spirituality and leadership of Franciscan lay women. Darleen has been a lay preacher since 1993 and offers retreats and workshops on contemplative practices and religious leadership.
WEEK 2
Msgr. Ray East is pastor of St. Teresa of Avila parish in southeast Washington DC, a vibrant African American Catholic community deeply engaged in catechetical, evangelization, and service ministries to its members, the surrounding neighborhood, and the Archdiocese of Washington. Father East served in six Washington parishes before being named director of the archdiocesan Office of Black Catholics and Vicar for Evangelization. He is a powerful preacher and unafraid to speak truth to power. "He represents the best of what our Church can be -a Church inserted in the life of the most vulnerable, and defending their cause." He was named the 2005 Pax Christi Pope Paul VI Teacher of Peace.
WEEK 3
Kimberly Mazyck
- is the Church Relations Manager with Catholic Relief Services, in Baltimore, MD where she conducts and supports a number of CRS' partnerships with U.S. organizations.
In 2008, she coordinated national speaking tours for CRS which highlighted CRS overseas programming including peace-building, food security and HIV. Kimberly joined staff at CRS in 2005 as a Campaign Project Officer coordinating Catholic Relief Services' Africa Rising: Hope and Healing campaign. She has over 10 years of experience in community outreach and advocacy. Kim has a B.S. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She also studied theology at the Graduate Theological Union inBerkeley, California. Kim has served on the Pax Christi USA National Council since 2010.
WEEK 4
Alex Mikulich: Ph.D. is Research Fellow at the Jesuit Social Research Institute, Loyola University New Orleans. He serves as Director of Louisiana for Fair Lending, a statewide coalition advocating for an end to predatory payday lending practices. He is also a co-leader and co-founder of Louisiana Catholics Committed to Repeal of the death penalty. He is co-editor and contributor to Interrupting White Privilege: Catholic Theologians Break the Silence (Orbis Books, 2007) that won the 2008 National Theological Book of the Year Award from the College Theology Society. He is co-author with Laurie Cassidy and Margaret Pfeil of The Scandal of White Complicity in U.S. Hyper-incarceration: A Nonviolent Spirituality of White Resistance (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013). He has served the Pax Christi USA Anti-Racism Team since 2008.
We hope you will consider joining us on this Advent journey.
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