Pax Christi South

In the last two months, I have been doing a lot of work in our church and community for peace and justice issues. Last month, I taught four sessions on the Nonviolence of Jesus in our church. I presented a day of reflection on Walking with Jesus, Micah, and Gandhi for our vicariate. I am […]

I had the opportunity to attend this year’s Pax Christi Florida retreat directed by John and Martina Linnehan. The beginning activity was the cosmic walk. Various versions are available at (http://www.threeeyesofuniverse.org/cosmicwalks/TheCosmicWalk.html). The activity made me intensely aware that the universe flared forth from the Infinite Mystery some 15 billion years ago. Details of the emergence […]

Things have not changed much from the days of the Prophets, Jesus, and now Stephen, the first martyr. The people have “covered up their hearts and ears.” They do not want to hear the voice of the prophet proclaiming the “truth which shall rise up from the earth while justice looks down from heaven” (Psalm […]

It is not unusual in discussions among sincere Christians for someone to state, “As long as there are human beings there will be war.” Statements like this get the attention of Christian peacemakers.
Conservative Christian evangelicals tend to support the war. They—Islamic terrorists—are numerous and are out to destroy us. We must destroy them over there […]

In John’s Gospel, Jesus invites his followers to “come and see.” It is an open ended invitation to a fantastic journey—the journey of getting to know Jesus. We celebrate Epiphany. The Wise Men from the East accepted God’s invitation to traverse afar amid great danger to come and see the child in the manger. Having […]

As Christians, we bear a moral responsibility for what goes on in our country in our names. Pope John XXIII reminded us that we must work for peace and justice with everything at our disposal. This has never been truer that it is today.
In an age of terrorism, real and manufactured fear keeps us cowering […]

Let’s put ourselves in the scene in today’s Gospel. John has been out in the desert proclaiming the coming of the God of Peace. He met with stiff opposition from the Roman dominators and Jewish leaders. Now he is in prison. For all he knows he may soon be put to death for his resistance […]

Skellig Michael
Advent is such a time of hope. Repeatedly the God of Peace promises to be with us, to help us, to sustain us. For some reason, the Advent visions of hope which keep coming to us in the daily readings seem to be more real this year. In our tumultuous world as people involved […]

John Dear has written a set of daily reflection for Pax Christi, The Advent of the God of Peace. If you do not have this guide to the daily scripture readings for Advent, I recommend that you get it.
I never quite thought of it this way before but Advent is the coming of the God […]

The feast of Christ the King presents me with a problem. Websters online dictionary defines king as “a male monarch of a major territorial unit.” Likewise, it defines kingdom as “a politically organized community or major territorial unit having a monarchical form of government headed by a king or queen.” Some people get around the […]