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Faith Perspective on War & Peace these past five plus years leads me to
attempt a new business model. Writing and working for peace should have some
hope of making a small profit in our society. But incomes have thus far been
significantly smaller than expenses. I’d like to now merge an old technology
with this new one. Money by mail, for these messages by internet.
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At seventy years since these exploded into our world, its time to banish these demons. They generate total disrespect for all life. We nations that have them, possess many times over the number sufficient to end all the biologically advanced life on this planet. What a blasphemy against our creator God, and a violation of the First Commandment, as they are certainly "strange gods" we entrust our lives to.
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Candle lantern commemoration of ancestors, and the first atomic bombing--Hiroshima
photo by Kim Kung Hoon, Reuters
From a Pax Christi Austin, TX 2007 ceremony
From an earlier Port Huron ceremony
An invitation, during our parish Franz Jagerstatter
Prayer Novena for the End of War
CANDLELIGHTS
ON THE RIVER
FOR
PEACE AND DISARMAMENT
Thursday,
August 6th, Year 2015
A
prayer vigil in commemoration of all those who have died in all wars
For our ancestors, our children, and even our enemies
To
commit ourselves to put an end to war
On
the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
So
that future generations may live in peace
Come down to the
river to pray
For conversion from the
arms race, on the banks of the St. Clair River, at the new River Walk in Port
Huron {midway down the walk at the sturgeon sculpture reef barriers}
At 9:15 PM, Thursday, August 6, 2015
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every
rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and
are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not
spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of
is scientists, the hopes of its children…This is not a way of life at all in
any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from
a cross of iron.”
--President Dwight D. Eisenhower
"After the passage of nearly four [now seven] decades
and a concomitant growth in our understanding of the ever growing horror of
nuclear war, we must shape the climate of opinion which will make it possible
for our country to express profound sorrow over the atomic bombing in 1945.
Without that sorrow, there is no possibility of finding a way to repudiate
future use of nuclear weapons…"
The U. S. Catholic Bishops, "The Challenge of Peace" pastoral letter
of 1983 [Sec 302]
