Welcome to the Beatitudes Center for the Nonviolent Jesus!
Upcoming Zoom Programs:
“Thomas Merton’s Contemplative Wisdom for a Time of Crisis” with Judith Valente
Saturday December 14, 2024
11 am Pacific, 12 PM Mountain, 1 PM Central, 2 PM Eastern
“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 2, 2024
Dear friends Blessings of Christ’s Peace!
As we start Advent, we begin a holy season of prayer, preparation, and contemplative peace as we look again to celebrate the birth of the nonviolent Jesus and his Christmas gift of “peace on earth,” if we want it. So many of us reject that gift, but the invitation still stands. Advent is a good time to deepen our contemplative practice of peace, to recommit to daily meditation with the God of peace, and to open our hearts to be channels of God’s universal love, compassion, and peace. We’re going to need this renewed strength to go forward into next year, when we’ll have to speak out and make “good trouble” for justice, disarmament, and creation, as the nonviolent Jesus did.
Next week, on Saturday, Dec. 14th, I’ll welcome Judith Valente, president of the International Thomas Merton Society (See: www.merton.org/itms), to speak with us about Thomas Merton’s advent wisdom for insight, strength, and renewal as we prepare for the new year. A former staff writer for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, Judith spent many years covering faith and values for “Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly” on national PBS-TV. Join us! (Participants might want to get my book, Thomas Merton Peacemaker, as a resource for this Advent program.)
Then, in the new year, I launch my free new weekly thirty minute podcast, “The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast” which will be posted on the National Catholic Reporter and many other platforms. Stay tuned!