updated 04.10.2008

Assembly Day -- May 17, 2008    Santa Fe, NM

Download Registration Form

9 a.m., doors open, registration, coffee
10 a.m.--Opening Song, prayer, welcome Opening remarks--Fr. John Dear, S.J.
10:30--noon: Workshops:

1.) Catholic Social Teaching and Nuclear Weapons, Bud Ryan
2.) Peacework: Henri Nouwen's Spirituality of Peace, Mike Marciano
3.) Building Relationships in the Peace Movement, Chris Sandoval
4.) Women's Spirituality of Peace, Ellie Voutselas
5.) Iraq, Torture and Peace, Mary Burton Riseley
6.) Spirituality and the Practice of the Nonviolent Life, Judy Bierbaum
7.) Abolishing the Death Penalty in New Mexico --- NM Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
8.) Working to End the War in Iraq, Ken Mayers, Veterans for Peace, Santa Fe, NM - Joan Duffy Chapter

12:00--1:00. Lunch (Please bring your own lunch and beverage)
1:00--2:30. Workshops [repeated again]
2:30--Closing Remarks, questions and answers, with Fr. John Dear, S.J.
2:50--3:00. Closing song and prayer.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Witness for Peace -- August 1-2, 2008 -- Santa Fe and Los Alamos
In commemoration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Download Flyer

Friday, August 1st, 2008 -- Santa Fe
4:00 Mass for Peace with Fr. John Dear, S.J.,
Santa Maria de la Paz Church, 11 College Ave., Santa Fe, NM

An Evening with Sr. Helen Prejean
7:00 p.m., El Museo Cultural Center, 1615 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM (Co-sponsored with the New Mexico Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty)

Sister Helen Prejean (http://www.prejean.org/) is an internationally known anti-death penalty activist and author.

A native of Louisiana, she has been instrumental in sparking national dialogue on the death penalty and in shaping the Catholic Church’s opposition to all state executions. She will call for the abolition of New Mexico's death penalty, as well as Los Alamos' nuclear weapons, which put us all on a global, nuclear death row.

Her best-selling book, Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and spawned an Oscar-winning movie and an internationally-acclaimed opera Her latest book is The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions. She travels the world giving lectures, and has been nominated many times for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Saturday, August 2nd , 2008 -- Los Alamos

Pax Christi's Annual "Sackcloth and Ashes" Peace Vigil begins at 2:00 p.m. at Ashley Pond in Los Alamos, NM. Sr. Helen will also speak at the Hiroshima Day rally beginning at 4:00 at Ashley Pond, Los Alamos, NM.

(Burlap sackcloth and ashes will be provided; please bring peace signs and banners.)