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Presenting
Our
2009 Social
Justice Lenten Retreat
With Joshua Casteel
Saturday, April 4, 2009
8:30am-3:30pm
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O'Hagan Hall (church basement)
Sacred Heart Parish
627
East Fourth Street
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Waterloo, Iowa
$25.00
for adults /
$15.00 for students
(includes light lunch)
Sponsored by
Cedar Valley Catholic Social Justice Network
Cedar Falls Mennonite Church/Cedar Valley Center for Peace &
Justice
Cedar Valley PaxChristi
Waterloo Catholic Worker
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About the Retreat
We live in a
world divided by religion, by race, by markets, by
nation-states, by ideologies, by borders and walls of all types.
All these “identities” vie for our attention and loyalty.
Too often they divide us and distract us from our mission as
disciples of Jesus Christ.
This retreat
invites us to reflect on our Lenten journey toward Easter,
resurrection, and finally, the City of God -- not a
city of our own construction, the product of earthly leaders, one
depending upon the idols of our world or even
our spiritual traditions, but a yet-to-come
and simultaneously now-present divine world.
Over and over,
God calls us to this community and asks us to reject both the
human will to power and all divisions among people. Only through
building God's City can we reach true freedom: a freedom to
reconcile, a freedom to love, a freedom of truth, a freedom
granted through self-giving, risk, and intimacy with God.
“What does it mean then to
have a political identity in this turbulent time of change and
violence? . . . Is a time of opportunity approaching when
borderless followers of a crucified peasant might re-imagine a
City of God? Not the geographical cities of powers and
dominions, but yet a City—tangible and manifest to the world—a
witness to that freedom which can be neither won nor taken by
force.”
--Joshua Casteel
About
the Presenter
Joshua Casteel
grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the grandson of a WWII veteran and the son of a U.S. Army
Captain. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserves at the age of
17 and received an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West
Point at 18. During his time in the service,
he studied Philosophy and Literature at the University of
Iowa and Keble College, Oxford. Less than 30 days after
receiving his B.A., he was called up from the Reserves to
full Active Duty in the U.S. Army.
Casteel trained first as an interrogator at Fort Huachuca,
Arizona and then spent eighteen months studying Arabic at the
Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. From June
2004 to January 2005, he served at the Joint Interrogation
and Debriefing Center at Abu Ghraib, Iraq, as a member of the
interrogation units sent to overhaul the prison after a highly
publicized prisoner abuse scandal. He was discharged from Active Duty as a
conscientious objector in 2005 and shortly after began writing and
speaking widely in the United States and Europe about his wartime experiences
and his decision to become a conscientious objector. In
March, 2007 he traveled to Rome for an audience with Pope Benedict XVI.
Casteel wrote a series of 2009 Lenten reflections for
PaxChristiUSA, The City of God.
His first book, Letters From Abu Ghraib (Essay Press), was
released in July, 2008. He serves on the board of
directors of Iraq Veterans Against the War and currently lives in Iowa City where he is
working on a memoir.
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Read more
about Joshua Casteel:
http://ncronline3.org/drupal/?q=node/2964
http://iowaindependent.com/tag/joshua-casteel
http://www.catholicpeacefellowship.org/nextpage.asp?m=2341
http://www.catholicpeacefellowship.org/nextpage.asp?m=2460
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Listen to Joshua
Casteel:
http://www.warcomeshome.org/joshua_casteel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM8jjqxtSpY
http://iraqforsale.org/casteel.php
http://www.catholicpeacefellowship.org/podcast/Site/Podcast/8A366293-5FBE-463D-9BF8-0D19F935BBB1.html
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Registration
by phone:
319-234-9912
by email: <dbq208s3@arch.pvt.k12.ia.us>
online:
www.waterloocatholics.org/registration.htm
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For more information contact:
Director of Adult Faith Formation
320 Mulberry Street, Waterloo IA 50703
Phone: 319-234-9912
Email: <DBQ208s3@arch.pvt.k12.ia.us>
Posted: 02.19.09 Last Update:
02.28.09
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