Come - Sit in silence and pray for peace.
Every third Thursday from 11:30-Noon
in the City Center Park in Greensboro,
beginning Maundy Thursday. March 20, 2008
For more information, call St. Francis Office 288-4721
Or, refer to the Franciscan newsletter on page 3:
March 2008.
We will sit and make our prayers for peace in such a way that each moment we mark becomes a realization of peace - each choice to show up in the park for half an hour becomes a prayer for peace & harmony.
We will sit together in silence with no banners and no pickets. The sitting and prayers will not be a petition addressed to anyone, nor will these be a demonstration against anyone, but rather, a time to unite our hearts, to nurture our togetherness and to dissipate fear and separation.
If you are a Christian, please come. If you are a Buddhist, please come. If you are Jewish, Muslim or belong to or identify with any other religious creed or peace organization, please come. If you are not religious but want to join us, you are welcome. If you are brown, black, yellow, white, red or any other color, please come. We will learn together that wrong perceptions of self and others are at the foundation of separation, fear, hate, and violence, and that togetherness and collaboration is possible. *
*Thich Nhat Hahn, a Buddhist monk nominated by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1967, has fostered a culture of peace and reconciliation for many, many years. The invitation to sit and pray for peace here in Greensboro is an adaptation of peace practices Nhat Hahn teaches around the world.
