2013 Regional Convenings

Dear Life, Justice and Peace Contacts:

Two things to note about upcoming events:

SAVE-THE-DATE!

Upcoming 2013 Regional Convenings

Join the Dialogue for Justice and Catholics across Western Washington to prepare for the 2014 Legislative Session.

• Northwest - Sacred Heart Parish, Bellingham, Wed., Oct. 23 , 7:00-9:00 PM
• King County - St. James Cathedral, Seattle, Sat., Oct. 19, 10:00 AM-Noon
• Southwest - St. Michael Parish, Olympia, Sat., Sept. 28, 10:00 AM-Noon

To register, go to www.ccsww.org/dialogueforjustice. For information about the Dialogue for Justice contact Josephine Tamayo Murray at (206) 328-5701 or email DialogueforJustice@ccsww.org.

• Flyer
• Bulletin Insert

World Day of Peace

"Fraternity, the foundation and pathway to peace". This is the theme of the 47th World Day of Peace, the first during the pontificate of Pope Francis. The World Day of Peace was an initiative of Pope Paul VI and it is celebrated on the first day of each year. The Message for the World Day of Peace draws attention to the essential value of peace and the need to work tirelessly in order to attain it.

In making the announcement, the Vatican Information Service noted, "Fraternity is a dowry that every man and every woman brings with himself or herself as a human being, as a child of the one Father. In the face of the many tragedies that afflict the family of nations - poverty, hunger, underdevelopment, conflicts, migrations, pollution, inequalities, injustice, organized crime, fundamentalisms - fraternity is the foundation and the pathway to peace. Fraternity, a gift and task that comes from God the Father, urges us to be in solidarity against inequality and poverty that undermine the social fabric, to take care of every person, especially the weakest and most defenseless, to love him or her as oneself, with the very heart of Jesus Christ."

In Christ's peace,
Jim


Jim Thomas
Director of Adult Faith Formation for
Catholic Social Teaching & Family Life
Archdiocese of Seattle
710 - 9th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104-2017
Dir. (206) 382-4268
Toll-free (800) 950-4970
Fax (206) 264-2084
www.seattlearchdiocese.org/cst
www.seattlearchdiocese.org/FamilyLife



"Never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity!"

Pope Francis
July 25, 2013"