Posted in Reflections on January 31st, 2009 Comments Off
Each day, at the same time, we are asking Pax Christi USA members, friends and all people of faith, to take five minutes to join in prayer with others around the world for peace. We pray that this year will be the last year of war in Iraq, and we offer our prayer so that [...]
Posted in Reflections on August 28th, 2008 Comments Off
By Art Laffin
Praise God our Creator, Source of all life.
I will sing praise to God as long as I live.
Do not put your trust in princes and presidents,
in mortals, in whom there is no salvation.
When they die they, too, return to earth;
on that very day their plans perish.
Happy are those whose hope is in the [...]
Posted in Reflections on August 9th, 2008 Comments Off
By Rev. Charles Emmanuel McCarthy
“Do Lawd, come down here and walk amongst yo people
And tek’em by the hand and telt’em
That yo ain’t hex wid’em
And do Lawd come yo self,
Don’t send yo son,
Cause dis ain’t no place for chillen.”
—PRAYER OF SLAVES, 1866
Charleston, S.C.
Tomorrow’s high-tech and low-tech brutalizers in politics and in commerce, in the military [...]
Posted in News, Reflections on June 30th, 2008 Comments Off
Good afternoon sisters and brothers. My name is Alan Smigielski and I’m here with a number of others from Pax Christi Metro DC. We are the local chapter of Pax Christi, the international Catholic Peace movement.
As followers of the nonviolent Jesus, where else could we be but here today, standing with TASSC and saying “no” [...]
Posted in Reflections on June 8th, 2008 Comments Off
June 8, 2008
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
By Rev. Joe McCloskey, S.J.
Published courtesy of Your Daily Tripod, a service of Cursillo of the Arlington Diocese
It is love that I desire, not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than holocausts. Hosea 6:6
“Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do. Go and [...]