TRI-PARISH LENTEN MISSION 2009
St. Joseph's in Berlin
Our Lady of the Rosary in Clinton
Our Lady of Jasna Gora in Clinton
LENTEN JOURNEY WITH PAUL-
It is not longer I who live,
but Christ who lives in me
Mission Speaker
Sr. Barbara Hobbs, PBVM
Sr. Barbara Hobbs is a Sister of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A former elementary and middle school teacher, Sr. Barbara served as a staff member and director of the Emmaus Spiritual Life Center in Norwich, CT for twenty-five years. She is presently engaged in full time ministry offering parish missions, directing retreats and offering spiritual direction.
Monday: March 2, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
(St. Joseph the Good Provider Church in Berlin)
Tuesday: March 3, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
(Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Clinton)
Wednesday: March 4, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
(Our Lady of Jasna Gora Church in Clinton)
On Wednesday, the last day of the Parish Mission, we will hold a family Lenten Reconciliation Service.
PARISH
LENTEN MISSION 2008
"NON-VIOLENT LOVE OF CHRIST"
Wednesday, March 5, 2007
FR. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy
Prayer Service and Reflection
Our Lady of Jasna Gora Church
Thursday, March 6, 2007
FR. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy
Prayer Service and Reflection
Our Lady of Jasna Gora Church
Friday, March 7, 2007
FR. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy
Reflection and Stations of the Cross
Our Lady of Jasna Gora Church
All
Parish Mission Talks and Prayer Services
will take place from 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Guest Preacher
Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy
Father McCarthy is a Roman Catholic priest of the Eastern Rite and acting rector of St. Gregory The Theologian Byzantine-Melkite Catholic Seminary in Newton Center, Massachusetts. He was formerly a lawyer, university educator and administrator who was called into the priesthood and who has devoted his entire adult life to the proclamation of Christ's teaching of nonviolent love of friends and enemies. Over the course of more than thirty years, he has given thousands of lectures, conferences and retreats throughout the world on the nonviolent Jesus and his way of nonviolent love.
A Nobel peace nominee in 1992, Fr. McCarthy was the founder and director of the University of Notre Dame's Program for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence. He also co-founded Pax Christi-USA and initiated The Annual Forty-Day Fast for the Truth of Christian Nonviolence.
Are you ready?
Are you ready
to embrace the possibility that
God is a God of Nonviolent Love,
Jesus is the Messiah of Nonviolent Love,
the Messianic ethic is the Way of Nonviolent Love,
the Christian is to be a person of Nonviolent Love,
the Church must be the New Community of Nonviolent Love?
The full embracing of Gospel Nonviolence calls for a radical alteration in thought patterns, verbal patterns, behavioral patterns, and emotional patterns. That is, it requires a completely different reality orientation and self-understanding. To a mind grounded primarily in the logic of the temporal and conditioned by a seemingly endless stream of examples in which violence is portrayed as a legitimate means of conflict resolution, the acceptance of nonviolence as truth does not come easily. There is no doubt that a significant change of mind (metanoia) is indispensable for embracing the Nonviolent Jesus of the Gospel—a process which necessitates an alteration in consciousness made possible only through grace and a patterned, repetitive exposure to ideas and images consistent with the Nonviolent Love of friends and enemies as taught and lived by Jesus.
Listen to Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy's talk on non-violent way of Jesus... (just to get a glimpse of his charisma and eloquence)
Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy, Catholic priest, author/lecturer, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, former U.S. Marine and a committed advocate of the non-violent path of Jesus provides a powerfully candid discussion of the failings of the Christian church to reject nationalistic violence and follow the commandment to “Love your enemies.” (Parts 1 and 2) In Part 1, Fr. McCarthy remarks that “In a community of cannibals it is difficult to raise the issue that cannibalism is against the will of God” to example how Christians have developed an acceptance of violence and have rejected Jesus as a consequence. “If we cannot know from the New Testament that Jesus rejected violence, then we can no nothing about his personal message.”
CLICK HERE TO SEE PART 1 VIDEO
In Part 2, Fr. McCarthy uses the Nagasaki bombing, where an all Christian bombing crew led by a Catholic commander dropped the atomic bomb on the oldest and largest Catholic community in the orient, using the Nagasaki Cathedral as ground zero, as an example how the church is destroying itself by its acceptance and promotion of violence.