Raise Your Voice

Raise Your Voice

by | Mar 24, 2020 | Go Forth 2020, Lesson Plans

Create a Peace Pole in your community.  A Peace Pole unites groups in solidarity to promote peace.  Create a pole together and include on it the words “May Peace Prevail on Earth” in many languages.  Invite others to a ceremony that encourages all those...
Step 4: Take Action

Step 4: Take Action

by | Mar 24, 2020 | Go Forth 2020, Lesson Plans

In both stories from Kenya and Chicago the community has come together to create peace in times of violence and uncertainty. Take action by inspiring peace in your group/class by reaching out to the wider community.RESEARCH active listening skills, peace circles,...
What Does The Church Say?

What Does The Church Say?

by | Mar 24, 2020 | Go Forth 2020, Lesson Plans

“Violence is not the cure for our broken world. Countering violence with violence leads at best to forced migrations and enormous suffering, because vast amounts of resources are diverted to military ends and away from the everyday needs of young people,...
Step 3: Explore Scripture and Tradition

Step 3: Explore Scripture and Tradition

by | Mar 24, 2020 | Go Forth 2020, Lesson Plans

READ ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:Old Testament: Isaiah 2: 3-5Life of Jesus:  Matthew 5:38-41Christian Living: 1 Cor 12:3B-7, 12-13REFLECT:  These Scriptures tell the story of how God invites missionary disciples to be instruments of peace.  How do you think...
Neighbor Focus

Neighbor Focus

by | Mar 24, 2020 | Go Forth 2020, Lesson Plans

Kenya Kenya, a small country in eastern Africa, has suffered years of conflict and war, but the Mutamaiyo Peace School in the town of Molo has become a place of hope. Fr. Lance Nadeau and other Maryknoll priests and brothers working in the country have witnessed...