The Feast of Pentecost has come and gone, marking the birthday of the Church, the end of the Easter season and the return to Ordinary Time. Like any other birthday, this means a new beginning, a celebration of new life, new growth, and new possibilities. And like many birthdays, it is a time of gift-giving.
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2022 Peacemaker Awards Celebration
You are invited to the 2022 Peacemaker Awards! Saturday June 11th from 2pm – 4:30pm. Live and by Zoom. Find more and download the registration form on our website.
Good Friday; Way of the Cross, The Way to Peace
Thanks to Everyone for a wonderful Good Friday; Way of the Cross, Way to Peace; Zoom Event! Please click through to the website for the YouTube event video. Thank you all again.
Conference on Social Justice, April 2
On April 2, 2022 the Church of St. Francis of Assisi Church and Pax Christi Metro New York, along with SOMOS Community Care and Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of New York, will be hosting a symposium on Catholic Social Teaching – a fundamental value of the Catholic tradition. The symposium, entitled “Good News in Tough Times: Following Jesus in a Wounded Church and Divided Nation,” will be conducted in English and in Spanish. The morning will feature two keynote speakers: John Carr of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and Bishop Octavio Cisneros, emeritus auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn in New York City.
By Request – the latest virtual retreat video
By popular request, a YouTube copy of the March 19 Retreat is posted here. Drawing on the teachings of mystics from Rumi, Dorothee Soelle, Thomas Berry and the Appalachian People’s Pastoral and then the work of artists depicting the Last Supper, the Trinity, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and Kwan Yen, to name a few. Fr. Terry Moran led us in contemplative ideas regarding peace and justice for our times.
Ash Wednesday Leafletting for Peace at St. Patrick’s Cathedral
There were seven PCMNY members – led by former Executive Director – Rosemarie Pace – leafletting in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Ash Wednesday.
The Mysticism of Wide-Open Eyes:The Contemplative Wellspring of Peacemaking; A Pax Christi Metro Retreat
Pax Christi Metro New York invites you to a Retreat via Zoom with Fr. Terrence Moran, Saturday, March 19th, 2021: 10:30 AM – 1:30 PM
This retreat will draw on the riches of the mystical tradition as a wellspring of our own journey to become “contemplactivists.”
End U.S. War in Iraq demonstration
Please join us, Saturday, March 19th 2022. NYC WRL is planning a demonstration against the U.S. war in Iraq for Saturday, March 19th, beginning noon in Times Square, then marching (at 12:30) to the drone sculpture on the High Line (at 30th St.) to continue the vigil.
“The voice of a good shepherd” says Bishop John Stowe
Read the powerful pastoral letter written by Archbishop Wester on nuclear disarmament.
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, Contact Congress Now!
We are asking ALL our members to write letters to the White House and to your representatives in Congress regarding the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons [TPNW] as soon as possible.
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