Big thank you to Fr John Dear for making this June 3, 2023 Zoom session possible. It’s my most recent “summary life perspective”, Faith-base talk. Something I’ve done over the years in some format or other…. They say Wisdom is ‘learned experience’ & this is my latest effort in sharing my Wisdom.
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From Fr John’s invite posting:
How do we follow the nonviolent Jesus and his Beatitude way of life, especially when so many Catholics and fellow Christians across the country seem to support greed, war, racism, gun violence, and the U.S. empire? This is a question we need to grapple with. What does discipleship to the nonviolent Jesus look like today for those of us living in the U.S.?
Fortunately, we have many saints in our own history to help us follow the nonviolent Jesus, such as Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Thomas Merton, Fannie Lou Hamer, Daniel Berrigan, Cesar Chavez, and Jean Donovan.
Frank Cordaro
Long time peace activist and former Catholic priest Frank Cordaro has been asking this question for decades, and will join us on June 3rd to reflect on his own journey and some lessons for all of us that we might better follow Jesus.
Frank Cordaro is the cofounder of the Philip Berrigan Catholic Worker community in Des Moines, Iowa. Begun in 1976, it is an ecumenical, interfaith, nonviolent, anarchist, intentional peacemaking community living in voluntary poverty which serves the poor and needy.
Frank has spent six years in prison for nonviolence civil disobedience actions over the years, including eight, separate six-month sentences for “crossing the line” at Offutt Air Force Base. He participated in the May 1997 Gods of Metal plowshares witness when he and four others hammered on a B52 fighter bomber at Andrews Air Force Base.
Frank believes that any fair reading of the New Testament leads to the conclusion that Jesus and his followers were not “pro rich, pro war, or pro Roman Empire,” that his commandment to “love your enemies” means we can’t kill them, and that the Gospel demands that we do the works of mercy (Matt. 25)—feed the hungry, clothe the naked, house the homeless, and care for the sick and imprisoned as a requirement for discipleship. He will share his faith journey from his college years when he sought a personal relationship with Jesus to living in steadfast nonviolent resistance to the U.S. empire through decades of service to the poor through the Catholic Worker community. Join us!
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