Pentagon Area Pax Christi Group
November 16th, 2008
History | Actions | Meetings | Contact Person
History
Pax Christi Pentagon Area (PCPA) formed in the Spring of 2006 in response to a growing demand in Northern Virginia for an active, nonviolent Christian witness in resistance to our modern-day culture of violence, death, and retribution. Our advocacy for peace and justice is grounded in Jesus’s example of prayer, nonviolence and solidarity with the poor and in Catholic social teaching.
While based at Our Lady Queen of Peace parish in Arlington, Virginia, PCPA is made up of faithful Disciples of Jesus Christ from many parishes, all within the “shadow” of the Pentagon, who take seriously His call for us “to love our enemies.”
Actions
PCPA is active in supporting the many peace-related actions in the DC area.
Some of the events where PCPA members participated include:
- International Day of Action to Shut Down Guantánamo
- Presentation: Torture and the National Security State
- March on Washington to End the War in Iraq
- Pax Christi Peace Mass
- Peace Traditions of Islam
- Political Non-Violence and the Threat of a Remilitarized Asia Pacific
- Pax Christi Peace Mass
- The Environmental Crisis
- Pax Christi Peace Mass
- Liz McAlister on Faith and Resistance
- Fr. John Dear, SJ at Premiere of The Narrow Path
- An Evening with TASSC
- Say NO to Israeli Occupation Rally
- TASSC 24 Hour Vigil to End Torture
- The Pursuit of Peace
- Pax Christi USA Regional Coordinators Meeting
- SOA Vigil and Action in Columbus, Georgia
- Pax Christi Metro DC 2008 Spring Assembly
- Remembering the Catonsville 9
- Peacemaker of the Year Awards Dinner 2008
In addition, PCPA continues to work within the Diocese of Arlington and the metro DC area to both advocate and educate for a more peaceful, nonviolent world and society.
Meetings
This is an excellent time for more of our fellow peacemakers to join our growing community as we begin to discern and then decide on regular actions and vigils that we may undertake as a sign of Christ’s love and peace in Northern Virginia.
Meetings are held twice a month. A schedule of the first and second quarter 2009 meetings is:
January 8
January 22
February 12
February 26
March 12
March 26
April 9
April 23
May 14
May 28
June 11
June 25
Contacts
Jack McHale
Burke, VA
(703) 250-5138
jjmchale@verizon.net
Alan Smigielski
Fairfax, VA
asmig@paxchristinova.org
Susan Raposa
Fairfax, VA
smrap@cox.net
