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Spiritual Reflections
A Decade After 9/11
& Reconciliation:
Peace
September 8, 2011Catholic University of America
Washington, D.C.www.paxchristiusa.org
Pax Christi USApresents
Our Annual Momentum Event 2011
Pax Christi USA1225 Otis Street, NE
Washington, D.C.
[email protected]
202.635.2741
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Tonight’s ProgramRefreshments and Social
Silent Auction
Welcome by Josie Chrosniak, HM,
Chairperson of the National Council
Call to Prayer: LitanyOpening Song: Musicians from Our Lady
Queen of Peace
“A Litany for Justice”
Presentation of the 2011 Teacher of Peace Award to Colleen Kelly
by Marie Dennis,
Co-President of Pax Christi International
Reflection by Pax Christi USA’s 2011 Teacher of Peace
“A Litany for Justice Continued”
Introduction of Keynote Speaker: by Ronaldo Cruz, Pax Christi
USA, Interim Director
Keynote Address by Jim Wallis
Dialogue: Questions and Answers
“A Litany for Justice Continued”
Introduction of PCUSA Staff and Interns
Closing Song: Musicians from Our Lady Queen of Peace
Welcome to Washington DC Pax Christi
USA
&Congratulations to Colleen Kelly on
The Teacher of Peace Award
14 F Street / Northwest / Capitol Hill / Washington DC /
20001202-543-5433 / www.kellysirishtimesdc.com
Calligraphy by Michael Noyes
Pax Christi USA would like to thank you for
your contribution to our Momentum Event 2011
Silent Auction
0 East 4th Street #18, Richmond, VA 23224 | 804-943-1522
1-800-210-3300 | [email protected] | www.michaelnoyes.com
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Dear Pax Christi USA,
Thank you for your 40 years of service and witness to our
nonviolent, active Savior and Christ, Jesus of Nazareth!
Let us reflect on these words of Pope Benedict XVI:
“Christ does not conquer through the sword,
but through the Cross.
He wins by conquering hatred;
He wins through the force of His greater love.
The Cross of Christ expresses his ‘no’ to violence.
In this way, it is God’s victory sign,
which announces Jesus’ new way.”
May our local Catholic parishes share Jesus’ new way by
establishing Pax Christi chapters and teaching our children and
adults about the nonviolent Jesus and successful nonviolent
movements!
Anybody “up” for funding the 1st Pax Christi school?
Pax Christi! Richard DeBonaRockville, MD
Pax Christi USAIn a world that settles differences by armed
violence and defines “justice”
as “revenge,” Pax Christi USA dares to break the cycle of
violence by fostering reconciliation.
Pax Christi USA is the national Catholic peace movement,
reaching more than half a million Catholics in the United States
each year. Our membership includes more than 130 U.S. bishops, 800
parish sponsors, 650 religious communities, 75 high school and
college campus groups, and 350 local groups.
The work of Pax Christi USA begins in personal life and extends
to communities of reflection and action to transform structures of
society. Pax Christi USA rejects war and every form of violence and
domination. It advocates primacy of conscience, economic and social
justice, and respect for creation. Pax Christi USA commits itself
to peace education and, with the help of its bishop members,
promotes the Gospel imperative of peacemaking as a priority in the
Catholic Church in the United States. Through the efforts of all
its members and in cooperation with other groups, Pax Christi USA
works toward a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world.
Pax Christi USA is a section of Pax Christi International, the
international Catholic peace movement with consultative status at
the United Nations.
We are now a member of the Combined Federal Campaign!
CFC is the world’s largest and most successful annual workplace
charity campaign, Pledges made by Federal civilian, postal and
military donors during the campaign season support eligible
non-profit organizations that provide health and human service
benefits
throughout the world.Help support
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We celebratePax Christi USA,
its members and staff
Thank you foryour commitment to the
pursuit of peace with justice and to the healing power
of reconciliation.
Blessings on your work as you make the transition to
your newheadquarters.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concernswww.maryknollogc.org
Jim WallisJim Wallis is a bestselling author,
public theologian, speaker, and international commentator on
ethics and public life. He recently served on the President’s
Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships and
currently serves as the chair of the Global Agenda Council on Faith
for the World Economic Forum. His latest book is Rediscovering
Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street
-- A Moral Compass for the New Economy. His two previous books,
The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith & Politics in a
Post–Religious Right America and God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets
It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It were both New York Times
bestsellers. He is president and CEO of Sojourners where he is
editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine, which has a combined print
and electronic media readership of more than 250,000 people. Jim
frequently speaks in the United States and abroad. His columns
appear in major newspapers, including The New York Times, The
Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe . He
frequently appears on radio and television, as a commentator on
CNN, MSNBC, Fox News – on shows such as Meet the Press, Hardball,
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The O’Reilly Factor, and on
National Public Radio. He teaches a course on “Faith, Social
Justice, and Public Life” at Georgetown University and has also
taught at Harvard University. He has written 10 books, which
include Faith Works: The Soul of Politics: A Practical and
Prophetic Vision for Change; Who Speaks for God? A New Politics of
Compassion, Community, and Civility; and The Call to
Conversion.
Jim Wallis was raised in an evangelical family in the Midwest.
As a teenager, his questioning of the racial segregation in his
church and community led him to the black churches and
neighborhoods of inner-city Detroit. He spent his student years
involved in the civil rights and antiwar movements. While at
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois, Jim and several
other students started a small magazine and community with a
Christian commitment to social justice which has now grown into a
national faith-based organization. In 1979, Time magazine named Jim
Wallis one of the "50 Faces for America's Future."
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TerraceBrookeville, MD 20833
301-774-7069Toll Free 866-265-9387
Pax Christi Long Island
celebrates !!!!
the vision and the voice
of
Colleen Kelly
and
Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
Colleen Kelly (Bronx, New York) is a family nurse practitioner,
and one of the founding members of September 11th Families for
Peaceful Tomorrows. On September 11th, 2001, Colleen’s brother Bill
was at a breakfast conference at Windows on the World and was
killed during the terrorist attacks.
Inspired by decades of non-violent response to deadly conflict,
Colleen met several other like-minded family members in December
2001, eventually forming September 11th Families for Peaceful
Tomorrows. The organization takes its name from the Martin Luther
King quote, “Wars make poor chisels for carving out peaceful
tomorrows.” The group has over 200 family members and was twice
nominated for the Nobel Peace prize.
In January, 2003, Colleen joined a person-to-person Peaceful
Tomorrows delegation to Iraq to learn about the conditions facing
civilians in the aftermath of two wars, sanctions, and the threat
of new military action there. In 2006, for the fifth anniversary of
9-11, Peaceful Tomorrows hosted more than thirty family members of
victims of political violence from around the world who had
consciously chosen to respond non-violently.
Participants included atomic bomb survivors; families affected
by violence in Bali; Beslan, Russia; Madrid; Chile; Algeria;
Rwanda; South Africa, Uganda and Israel/Palestine. This new
international group aims to support families recently affected by
the loss of a loved one, and to channel grief to break cycles of
violence. Peaceful Tomorrows current work focuses on closing the
Guantanamo Bay prison, supporting religious tolerance and
diversity, restoring the Rule of Law, and calling attention to the
issue of civilian casualties around the globe.
Colleen lives in the Bronx with her three teenage children,
working at a Montefiore school health clinic inside a large Bronx
high school. Both ‘jobs’ have greatly helped her practice conflict
resolution!
Colleen KellyTeacher of Peace 2011
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www.peacexpeace.org
Our 20,000 women peacebuilders in 120 countries
welcome Pax Christi USA to DC
and congratulate Colleen Kelly
of Peaceful Tomorrows,
Pax Christi USA’s 2011 Teacher of Peace.
Look for Sixty Years, Sixty Voices: Israeli and Palestinian
Women in the Silent Auction.
Silent AuctionPlease be sure to visit our Silent Auction and bid
on the
exciting offers we have available!
Our auction items range from books, artwork to dinners AND
MORE!
Some of our aution items include:
Signed copies of Sixty Years, Sixty Voices: Isreali and
Palestinian Women
Three tickets to a Orioles-Red Sox game including pre-game
picnic with Fr. Joe Nangle
Calligraphy Artwork
Two membership to Cinema Art Fairfax, Virginia Film Club
Traditional Brazilian Dinner
Bidding will be open during our opening reception and again
after the program has ended
Pax Christi Michigan extends our sincere congratulations to
Colleen Kelly, 2011 recipient of the
Pax Christi USA Teacher of Peace Award and founding member
of
September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows.
Your life and your witness calls us to passionately continue our
work for peaceful tomorrows by insisting on ending our involvement
in all wars, reversing the direction of our corporate-backed
government and recommitting ourselves to work for the Common Good,
so that all people may live together justly, peacefully and
nonviolently on this planet. We grieve your loss from the Twin
Towers tragedy and pray for
your continued healing.
Thanks to Dave Robinson for your 20 years of inspired and
dedicated work & congratulations to PCUSA on the move to your
new D.C. office!
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Congratulations Jim Wallis and Colleen Kelly
for guiding us in the way to peace!
Pax Christi Metro New York371 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY
10014
212-420-0250; [email protected]; www.nypaxchristi.org;
and now on Facebook, too!
PAX CHRISTIPENTAGON AREA
Witnessing to thePeace of Christin the Shadow
of the Pentagon
CONGRATULATIONS TOPAX CHRISTI USA &
COLLEEN KELLY!
Thank you, Dave!Congratulations, Colleen!
Pax Christi Pacifi c Northwest
Pax Christi USA’sTeachers of Peace
The Teacher of Peace Award is given annually to the person who,
in our opinion, gives outstanding witness to the theme of Pope Paul
VI’s World Day of Peace message, “To reach peace,
teach peace.”
1978 – Dorothy Day1980 – Msgr. Paul Hanly Furfey
1982 – Mary Evelyn Jegen, S.N.D.1983 – Eileen Egan and Gordon
Zahn
1984 – Maura Clarke, Ita Ford, Dorothy Kazel and Jean
Donovan
1986 – Hildegard and Jean Goss-Mayr1987 – Archbishop Raymond
Hunthausen
1988 – Lawrence Martin Jenco1989 – Daniel Berrigan, S.J.
1990 – Joan Chittister, O.S.B.1991 – Bishop Thomas Gumbleton
1992 – Dom Helder Camara1993 – Colman McCarthy
1994 – Jim and Shelley Douglass1995 – Jim and Kathy McGinnis
1996 – Helen Prejean, C.S.J.1997 – Roy Bourgeois, M.M.
1998 – Kathy Kelly1999 – Martin Sheen
2000 – Dianna Ortiz, O.S.U.2001 – Fr. Louis Vitale, Liz Berrigan
and
Phil Berrigan2002 – Fr. Peter Dougherty
2003 – William Quigley2005 – Msgr. Ray East
2006 – Sr. Mary Lou Kownacki, OSB2007 - Fr. John Rausch,
Glmy
2008 - MJ and Jerry Park2009 - Bishop Leroy Matthiesen
2010 – Jim Albertini2011 – Colleen Kelly
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As we work to break the cycles of violence in
the world, one step at a time, one teacher at
a time and one lesson at a time, we at
September 11th Families for Peaceful
Tomorrows remain inspired by
the work of Pax Christi.
September Eleventh Families forPeaceful Tomorrows
P.O. Box 1818Peter Stuyvesant Station
New York, NY 10009Email: [email protected]
Phone:
212-598-0970www.peacefultomorrows.orghttp://911stories.org/welcome
Ten years ago, just scant hours after our nation witnessed the
tragic events of September 11th, Pax Christi USA released a
statement which said, in part:
We recognize that as the reality of the magnitude of loss
becomes clear, our nation’s grief will soon move toward rage. As
people of faith and disciples of the nonviolent Jesus, we must be
willing, even now in this darkest moment, to commit ourselves and
urge our sisters and brothers, to resist the impulse to ven-geance.
We must resist the urge to demonize and dehumanize any ethnic group
as ‘enemy.’ We must find the courage to break the spiral of
violence that so many in our nation, we fear, will be quick to
embrace. (Pax Christi USA’s Official State-ment on 9-11, published
on September 12, 2001)
On Sunday, September 11, 2011, the tenth anniversary of 9-11, as
we gather to celebrate the Eucharist together, a question will be
put to us:
Could anyone nourish anger against another and expect healing
from the Lord? Can anyone refuse mercy to another, yet expect
pardon for one’s own sins?
(Sirach 28:3-4)
These past ten years, we have witnessed the failure of policies
built on ven-geance. Our elected leaders manipulated our grief and
fear to justify foreign policy decisions which had little to
nothing to do with the tragedy of 9-11. Our nation was ensconced in
a culture of fear, where the scapegoating of peoples, the fanning
of religious intolerance, and the curtailing of civil rights served
the needs of political expedience.
We have been witnesses to the dark places where our government’s
response to 9-11 led our nation—the justification of torture, the
moral bankruptcy of pre-emptive war, the daily reports of innocent
civilians killed as collateral damage, the deaths of thousands of
U.S. service personnel, and the stealing of our na-tional wealth to
pay for wars abroad as our children, our elderly, and the most
vulnerable are left to suffer at home.
Today, as we acknowledge the ten year anniversary of 9-11, there
can be no doubt that responding with war and violence can neither
console us in our grief nor achieve the security for which we
long.
In the weeks following 9-11, Pax Christi USA proclaimed that
very message, and challenged our political leaders to seize this
moment for peace by establish-ing justice for all peoples
throughout the world. Until we commit our own nation to the pursuit
of peace and justice for the entire human family, we should not be
surprised when the violence suffered by those living on the other
side of the world—as well as those living on the wrong side of
town—eventually engulfs us all.
The Things ThatMake for Peace
Pax Christi USA Statement on the Anniversary of 9-11
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Save the Date!Pax Christi USA National Conference 2012
Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Pax Christi USA
July 20-22, 2012The CaTholiC universiTy
of ameriCaWashingTon, D.C.
More information available soon at www.paxchristiusa.org!
Ten years have passed, but we believe that the opportunity is
still with us. Let us start, now, today, in Washington, D.C. and in
every city and town across this land, in our schools and our places
of worship and within our own homes. Let us write a new chapter and
create a new legacy for all those whose lives were shattered on
9-11. Let each one of us decide what it is that we can do to create
a legacy which heals instead of harms. Let us begin with the
assurance that such healing will come if we make economic,
political and social justice for all our top priority.
On Sunday, September 11, 2011, at the responsorial, Catholics
will sing in churches throughout our nation:
Our God is kind and merciful, slow to anger, and rich in
compassion. God pardons all our iniquities, heals all our ills,
redeems our lives from destruction,
and crowns us with kindness and compassion. (Psalm 103)
This anniversary offers us an opportunity to reflect the values
of the God to whom we have given our allegiance. Let us remember
those who were lost and memorialize this day by committing our
lives to “the things that make for peace”—drawing closer to those
who suffer, cultivating understanding in the midst of suspicion,
finding truth in the arguments of those with whom we dis-agree,
embracing some measure of personal sacrifice today to make a better
world for our children and grandchildren tomorrow.
Let us gather one decade from now—not amidst the ruins of all
that has been torn down—but in the midst of that new world of peace
and security for all which we have built up together.
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Pax Christi offers internships in:
- Administration- Youth & Young Adult - Grassroots
Organizing- Development
- Research and Policy Work
- Strategic Planning- Publications & Design
- Web Design
For more information:Contact Sister Dianna Ortiz, OSU, Pax
Christi USA Deputy Director
[email protected]
www.paxchristiusa.org
New Intern Positions Available Fall 2012!
Pax Christi USA offers interns:- Placement in Washington,
D.C.
- Monthly Stipend and Health Insurance
- Long Term or Short Term Internships
PAX CHRISTI MINNESOTA STATE ASSEMBLY Sept 16-17, 2011
Friday keynote by Coleen Rowley (7-9pm) “Ethics and Social
Psychology Responsible for Good People Doing Wrong”
(Coleen is a former FBI Special Agent and one of Time Magazine’s
Persons of the Year in 2002.)
Saturday Workshops (8:15am-3:30pm) “Breaking the Culture of
Silence; Choosing a Nonviolent Path”
Secrets of Faith & Hope in HaitiSexual Violence in the
Military
Creative Nonviolence in AfghanistanVictims of Torture
Freedom Riders 50th Anniversary Breaking Free From Human
Trafficking
Location: Pax Christi Catholic Church 4135 18th Avenue NW
Rochester, MN 55901
Registration Form: available on-line at
http://www.paxchristimn.org/
The St. Francis of Assisi Pax Christi group, Derwood, MD
welcomes Pax Christi USA to Washington, DC.
We pray that you will increase the spirit of the
Prince of Peace and his gospel message of
non-violence in the Nation’s Capital. We look
forward to helping you with this mission.
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AcknowledgementsPax Christi USA would like to thank all those
who made tonight’s event
possible. We are truly appreciative of your efforts.
The Catholic University of AmericaLeia Tenuta
Lori LiebesmanThe Cardinal Catering
Catherine Davis
Pax Christi at the Catholic University of Americaand Isaac
Farias
Pax Christi USA would also like to thank the 2011 Momentum Host
Committee for their hard work in making this event a success. We
appreciate your efforts in selling tickets, soliciting auction
items and program ads, and for all of the many other ways you have
helped make this evening a success. The coming of the peaceful
kingdom of God can only be attained through the efforts of all of
us, guided by the Holy Spirit. We thank you for your
efforts to further this cause by your efforts for the Momentum
event.
Pax Christi USA Momentum Host Committee
Bob CookeJim Noonan
Jean Stokan and Scott WrightEvelyn Mercantini
Jack McHaleMarie DennisJudith Kelly
Mary LiepoldBob and Ann More
Dave and Mary Kate RynerJoe Nangle
Luann Mostello and Art MillhollandRon Cruz
Eli McCarthy
Chuck MichaelsCharles McCarthy
John ReedLarry Callahan
Margaret NuzzoleseDennis Duffy
Donna GrimesPaul Magno
Tony LangbehnRichard DeBona
Jack and Joan McCarthyJennifer SvetlikMike Rodgers
Aetna ThompsonNuala Cohen
The Pax Christi communityat
St. Rose of Lima, Gaithersburg, MD
welcomes the National Pax
Christi office to the
Washington D.C. area.
We appreciate Pax Christi
USA and its years of effort to
promote the gospel message of
peace and justice through non
violent means.
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The Center of Concern offers
our warm congratulations to Colleen Kelly for her graced witness
to a truly Christian 9/11 response
our grateful respect to Jim Wallis for his tireless prophetic
ministry for peace with justice
our profound thanks to Pax Christi USA as it approaches forty
years of faithful peacemaking
our grieving with all whose lives have been wounded or destroyed
anywhere in the world during the ten-year violence of the country’s
response to 9/11
and our sincere prayer for the nation that we may learn in the
decade ahead to walk in the ways of peace, forging a world
community of justice in love.
Center of Concern • 1225 Otis Street, NE • Washington, D.C.
20017P: 202.635.2757 • F: 202.832.9494 • Email: [email protected]
www.coc.org
PAX CHRISTI METRO DC-BALTIMORE
WELCOMES PAX CHRISTI USA
NATIONAL STAFF TO
WASHINGTON, DC.
May God prosper our work together for peace in the heart of the
empire!
CONGRATULATIONS
TO COLLEEN KELLY,
2011 Teacher of Peace.
www.paxchristimetrodc.org
