Peace Witness at Lafayette Park
Lafayette Park
(in front of the White House)
Washington, DC
A liturgy of peacemaking including the laying of stones at the gates to the White House representing the Iraq War dead. Their voices have been silenced; the stones themselves will bear witness. There comes a time to break silence.
“Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. … Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its movement well and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Time to Break Silence
Convened in continuation of the Christian Peace Witness for Iraq by DC Metro clergy and laity. www.christianpeacewitness.org
