Posts tagged Peace
Charlie Chaplin gives one of the greatest speeches ever recorded.
Promo for a new series we’re starting at my youth group, called Activate. It’s a four week series on the Social Teaching of the Church. It’s gonna be amazing. For anyone in the Dallas area, consider yourself invited. For everyone else, lift us up in prayer (and try not to get jealous!)
In these critical times, we are well aware of the danger of violence and terrorism and the whole culture of death, even the possible catastrophe of a nuclear war. Prayer, sacrifice, and reparation are essential to countering the negative effects of selfishness and sin the world. But we must also reach out in a very concrete way to those in need. Practicing the works of mercy helps us to move out of a self-centeredness which emphasizes and focuses only on ones own personal needs and concerns, and directs us out toward the needs and concerns of others. It is through the daily living of these works of mercy and love that we will heal the ravages of war, of hatred, of violence, and ultimately of sinfulness. If the Kingdom of God is to be built, we must do the works mercy the Lord has taught us. The result will be a world where peace and charity will reign.
Fr. Andrew Apostoli, CFR
Resist the urge to shrug this off as pious utopian dreaming. This is a two thousand year old, deeply Catholic way of viewing the world. We continue to announce it to the world because it continues to be the only way that works. The non-violent revolutions of the likes of MLKjr and Ghandi (himself inspired by Jesus’ approach in the Gospel of Matthew), bear witness to the truth that it can work. And thus we refuse to capitulate to the world’s way of thinking that says selfishness and hatred and war are acceptable and necessary to solve our problems. Those things are our problems. There is another way. His name is Jesus. And he is Love.
'Educating Young People In Justice & Peace' to be WYD '12 Theme
Not exactly catchy, but definitely a great topic!
‘Moonlight Speech’ Given Off the Cuff by Blessed John XXIII
Dear sons and daughters,
I feel your voices! Mine is just one lone voice, but it sums up the voice of the whole world.
And here, in fact, all the world is represented here tonight. It could even be said that even the moon hastens close tonight, that from above, it might watch this spectacle that not even St Peter’s Basilica, over its four centuries of history, has ever been able to witness.
We ask for a great day of peace. Yes, of peace! ‘Glory to God, and peace to men of goodwill.” If I asked you, if I could ask of each one of you: where are you from? The children of Rome, especially represented here, would respond: ah, we are the closest of children, and you’re our bishop. Well, then, sons and daughters of Rome, always remember that you represent ‘Roma, caput mundi’ [‘Rome, the capital of the world’] which through the design of Providence it has been called to be across the centuries.
My own person counts for nothing — it’s a brother who speaks to you, become a father by the will of our Lord, but all together, fatherhood and brotherhood and God’s grace, give honor to the impressions of this night, which are always our feelings, which now we express before heaven and earth: faith, hope, love, love of God, love of brother and sister, all aided along the way in the Lord’s holy peace for the work of the good. And so, let us continue to love each other, to look out for each other along the way: to welcome whoever comes close to us, and set aside whatever difficulty it might bring.
When you head home, find your children. Hug and kiss your children and tell them: ‘This is the hug and kiss of the Pope.’ And when you find them with tears to dry, give them a good word. Give anyone who suffers a word of comfort. Tell them ‘The Pope is with us especially in our times of sadness and bitterness.’ And then, all together, may we always come alive — whether to sing, to breathe, or to cry, but always full of trust in Christ, who helps us and hears us, let us continue along our path.
Given 11 October 1962
Calvin & Hobbes
“The pleasures of the world are always delightful in anticipation, disgusting in retrospect. The joys of the spirit seem difficult in prospect, but are thrilling in their possession. God is reminding us that our peace is in Him.” -Archbishop Fulton Sheen
“I have seen how easy it is for nuclear contamination to occur, and how hard it is to clean it up…. Do nations possess nuclear, chemical and biological weapons because of fear of attack from some other nation, or is it mainly because without them the stronger cannot otherwise exploit the weaker?” -Andreas Toupadakis, Institute of Public Accuracy, 23 February 2000
Support nuclear disarmament and make the world a more peaceful place!
Violence is a dead end. It is a sign neither of courage nor power. That is not how moral authority is claimed, that is how it is surrendered.
“Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing at the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.” -Pope John Paul II
“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” -C.S. Lewis
“If religious freedom is the path to peace, religious education is the highway which leads new generations to see others as their brothers and sisters, with whom they are called to journey and work together so that all will feel that they are living members of the one human family, from which no one is to be excluded.
“The family founded on marriage, as the expression of the close union and complementarity between a man and a woman, finds its place here as the first school for the social, cultural, moral and spiritual formation and growth of children, who should always be able to see in their father and mother the first witnesses of a life directed to the pursuit of truth and the love of God. Parents must be always free to transmit to their children, responsibly and without constraints, their heritage of faith, values and culture. The family, the first cell of human society, remains the primary training ground for harmonious relations at every level of coexistence, human, national and international. Wisdom suggests that this is the road to building a strong and fraternal social fabric, in which young people can be prepared to assume their proper responsibilities in life, in a free society, and in a spirit of understanding and peace.”
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