Douglas Horner I hope that all of you will consider attending this event and the retreat in April : Invitation to a viewing of the movie: Pray the Devil Back to Hell” From Father Bob Begin, pastor @ St Coleman’s: During the years of civil war in Liberia thousands of Liberian women, many of them pregnant, were forced to flee their homes with their children only to repeat the experience over and over again. Hunger, homelessness, rape, fear and violence were their constant and daily experience. And there was no safe place to go. Leymah Gbowee tells of the horror she herself underwent in a book called Mighty Be our Powers. What she and others suffered brings tears to your eyes and makes you put the book down from time to time to fathom the depth of their misery. The book quickly became a best seller in 2011 and Leymah won Nobel Prize that year. The documentary Video, produced by PBS as part of a series of women and peacemaking, is called, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, is available free on line. In about 45 minutes the video tells the story of women who said: “We are tired of war, we are tired of violence.” They banded together, dressed in white garments and began a movement to end the war. When the peace talks in Ghana stalled, it was the women’s peace movement that forced the tribal leaders to sign the peace accord, oust President Taylor, install an interim government and elect a new President. Most of the Liberian families that we are so happy to have as members of St. Colman and St. Patrick parishes lived through that war and many were forced from their homes into refugee camps. Come with our Liberian Friends to see the video together, demonstrate your solidarity with them and share with one another the deeply religious, powerful and effective experience of peacemaking. We will show the video “PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL at 12:30 in the parish hall after coffee and doughnuts on Sunday, February 9th. We are showing this video as part of our community effort to create a culture of nonviolence to counteract the violence that increasingly is surrounding us. We hope to generate more interest until the weekend of April 4-5-6 when we have invited Father Emmanuel Charles McCarthy to come and lead a workshop on the nonviolent teaching of Jesus. April 4th is the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the last weekend of Lent. MARK YOUR CALENDARS. Together we can make a real difference. video.pbs.org/video/2155873888/
Posted on: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 08:56:40 +0000
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