Welcome to the Beatitudes Center for the Nonviolent Jesus!
Upcoming Zoom Programs:
“Human Rights and Peacemaking” with Kerry Kennedy
Saturday January 11, 2025
11 am Pacific, 12 PM Mountain, 1 PM Central, 2 PM Eastern
“War Isn’t Over When It’s Over” with Kathy Kelly
Saturday January 25, 2025
11 am Pacific, 12 PM Mountain, 1 PM Central, 2 PM Eastern
“The Little Way of Merciful Love: Real-World Mentoring from St. Therese of Lisieux” with Marisa Guerin
Saturday February 8, 2025
11 am Pacific, 12 PM Mountain, 1 PM Central, 2 PM Eastern
“The Gospel According to John,” A Lenten Series with Fr. John Dear
Monday, March 10th. Session #1—4:00 PT/7 pm ET
Monday, March 17th. Session #2—4:00 PT/7 pm ET
Monday, March 24th. Session #3—4:00 PT/7 pm ET
Monday, March 31st. Session #4—4:00 PT/7 pm ET
Monday, April 7th. Session #5—4:00 PT/7 pm ET
Host Fr. John Dear on his 2024 Speaking Tour for his Forthcoming Orbis Book:
“The Gospel of Peace: A Commentary on Matthew, Mark and Luke from the Perspective of Nonviolence.”
For more info, click here
John Dear’s new book now available
“The Gospel of Peace:
Reading Matthew, Mark & Luke
from the Perspective of Nonviolence”
Call Orbis Books at 1-800-258-5838 and give them the special code: “JDT”
To invite John Dear to speak in your city, write to: john@beatitudescenter.org
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LATEST NEWS FROM THE BEATITUDES CENTER
Quote for the Day:
“The wolf shall live with the lamb; the leopard shall lie down with the kid. The calf and the lion will feed together, and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together;
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put its hand on the
adder’s den. They will not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain,
for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the God of peace as the waters cover the sea.”
(Isaiah 11:6–9)
Quote for the Day:
“I am called in the Word of God — as is everyone else — to the vocation of being human, nothing more and nothing less … To be a Christian
means to be called to be an exemplary human being. And to be a Christian categorically does not mean being religious. Indeed, all religious versions of the gospel are profanities. In the face of death, live humanly. In the middle of chaos, celebrate the Word. Amidst Babel, speak the truth. Confront the noise and verbiage and falsehood of death with the truth and potency and efficacy of the Word of God. Know the Word, teach the Word, nurture the Word, preach the Word, define the Word, incarnate the Word, do the Word, live the Word. And more than that, in the Word of God, expose death and all death’s works and wiles, rebuke lies,
cast out demons, exorcise, cleanse the possessed,
raise those who are dead in mind and conscience.”
–William Stringfellow
December 17, 2024
Dear friends, Advent blessings of peace and hope to you!
In 1981, the year before I entered the Jesuits, I took a job working for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial as the assistant to the director, David Hackett, Bobby Kennedy’s lifelong best friend. Eventually, it became the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Center. On Jan. 11th, as we begin the new year, I’m pleased to welcome, for our first Beatitudes Center zoom program its director, my friend Kerry Kennedy.
“Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so long ago,” Robert F. Kennedy famously said, ‘to tame the savageness of humanity and make gentle the life of this world.’” That quote has been a guiding mantra throughout my life. Kerry has led the RFK center for many decades, advocating for human rights and pursuing strategic litigation to hold governments accountable at home and around the world. The RFK Center has educated millions of people about human rights, and helped train a new generation of leaders around the world realize Robert F. Kennedy’s dream of a more just and gentler world. Please visit www.rfkhumanrights.org for further information.
According to the United Nations, human rights are “rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status.” Human rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, and the right to work and education. As we face unprecedented global poverty, permanent warfare, the threat of nuclear weapons, and catastrophic climate change, many are expanding this initial vision to include the right to live in peace, without fear of war or nuclear weapons, as well as the rights of all creatures and Mother Earth, too.