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 Tomorrow, Saturday, Dec. 14th, marks the one year anniversary of the shootings of the schoolchildren and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT.
Since that time, over ten thousand people in the United States have been killed by guns and many more Americans have died by gun shots of all types -- self-inflicted accidents, suicides, etc. Among these many deaths are children and others in the inner cities each day, dying one by one, by the epidemic of gun violence. Each day, more people die from gun violence in this country than died together on that one tragic day in Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Please mark this one year anniversary of the Sandy Hook school shooting with prayers for all involved -- the automatic gun manufacturers and their advocates, all of the victims of gun violence and their families and friends, as well as all the people working to stop domestic gun violence in our country. Please also take action. We must form a national movement to overcome the NRA and its industry backers.
Pax Christi USA offers you the following Prayer, Study and Action ideas to help you remember with us the senseless and unnecessary deaths of so many.
At the School of the Americas Vigil in Columbus, GA, PCUSA Executive Director Sister Patty Chappell and Pax Christi USA Teacher of Peace Kathy Kelly led the annual Friday evening workshop titled "Gun Violence Has No Room in the Spirituality of Peacemaking". Much of what follows comes from that event.
In peace,
Sr. Anne-Louise Nadeau, SNDdeN
Program Director, Pax Christi USA
Robert Cooke
Pax Christi Metro D.C.-Baltimore and Heeding God's Call member
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