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The Cedar Valley Catholic Social Justice Network
and Waterloo Catholic Worker Present
A Social Justice
Lenten Retreat
Saturday, February 25, 2012
9:00am-3:30pm
O'Hagan Hall
Sacred Heart Church
627 West 4th St., Waterloo
[Click
here
for map]
Guest Presenter
Brian Terrell
Registration Fee Collected at the Door
$20.00/person $15.00/students
[Includes lunch]
Our Social Justice Lenten Retreat
Our annual Advent and Lenten Social Justice Retreats are
designed to help participants enter into the spirit of these key
liturgical seasons with a greater appreciation for our call to
be disciples of peace and justice. By reason of our birth and
baptism, we are called to be agents of a new Kingdom promised in
Creation, restored by the Incarnation, and initiated through the
life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
This Year's Theme:
Hungering for Justice--Fasting in Solidarity
"Hungering for Justice, Fasting in
Solidarity" is the theme for our 2012
Social Justice Lenten Retreat conducted by Brian Terrell.
In January of 2012
Brian was among 50 activists who gathered in
Washington, DC for a ten day liquids-only-fast, sponsored by
Witness Against Torture. The fast marked the tenth
anniversary of the opening of the US detention center at Guantanamo
Bay,
Cuba. In this Lenten retreat Brian will lead a day of discussion and
reflection on the role of Christian asceticism in a world at war and in need
of healing; the retreat will explore how traditional practices of fasting and
self-sacrifice can be a positive part of our efforts to build a
more just and peaceful world.
Read more
about the fast
here.
About the Presenter
Brian Terrell has been active
in the peace and justice movement nationally and internationally
for over 36 years. He joined the Catholic Worker community
in New York City in 1975 and was an associate editor of The
Catholic Worker newspaper during the last years of Dorothy
Day's life. In 1979 he moved to Davenport, Iowa where he
lived and worked at a hospitality house for the homeless. In 1986 Brian and his wife Betsy moved to Maloy,
Iowa where they now live with their children at the Strangers
and Guests Catholic Worker Farm. Brian was executive director of the
Catholic Peace Ministry in Des Moines until 2008 and remains
active in local, state and national peace and justice
organizations and the Catholic Worker community. He has been
arrested numerous times for committing acts of nonviolent
resistance to war and injustice.
Registration
By phone: call 319-234-9912
By email: <DBQ208s3@arch.pvt.k12.ia.us>
Online:
Click here to register online
Disclaimer
The Cedar Valley Catholic
Social Justice Network is a coalition of individuals and
organizations in the Catholic community who are interested in
and committed to study, prayer and action for social justice.
Information provided by the Network does not constitute
agreement or endorsement by the pastors or staff of the Catholic
Parishes in Waterloo or the Archdiocese of Dubuque.
For information contact:
Director of Adult Faith Formation 320 Mulberry St.,
Waterloo IA 50703. Phone:
319-234-9912 Email: DBQ208s3@arch.pvt.k12.ia.us
Posted 01.06.10
Last Update: 01.18.11 |