Making Peace

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Pax Christi in partnership with Leeds Met.
University Global Ethics Dept.
Making Peace in the Post Christian Era

War is not merely the product of blind political
forces, but of human choices . The brutal
reality is that we seem to prefer destructive
measures not that we love war for its own sake,
but because we are blindly and hopelessly involved
in needs and attitudes that make war
inevitable. Thomas Mertons Peace in the
Post-Christian Era ,
unpublished during his lifetime, was published in
2004. it challenges us to-day as much as when he
wrote it.
A day on Mertons Prophetic thoughts on War and
Peace.
Saturday 11th November 10 am to 3.30pm
Leeds Met. Univ. Headingley Campus, Beckett Park,
Leeds

• Speakers
• Pat Gaffney - Gen. Sec. Pax Christi U.K.
• Fr. Gerry McFlynn - Irish Comm.for Prisoners
  Overseas.
• Revd.Dr. Clive Barrett Visiting Fellow Leeds
  Met. Univ.

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------------- BOOKING ESSENTIAL Please book me
___ places for the Merton Day. Name
___________________________ Address
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________________ Tel. No.
_____________ Booking Fee is 6 (Cheques made
payable to Leeds Inter Church Peace Group)
Return to Margaret Scally, 6 Grove Lane, Leeds
LS6 2AP. Tel [phone]
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Programme 10am Registration. Tea/coffee
12.30 Lunch break 10.30 Intro to Day
1.30 Merton, Silence
Prophecy Pat Gaffney
Rev. Clive Barrett 1045
Merton to-day no guilty bystander 2.15
Responses/sharing Fr. Gerry McFlynn
Where should we be
going 11.30 Group Work using a text from
in peace making in 21st C. ?
Mertons book. 12.00 Plenary questions,
comments. 3.00 Prayer/Reflection

3.30 Close PLEASE
BRING A PACKED LUNCH TO SHARE !
Jubilee Room. James Graham Building, Leeds Met.
Univ. Headingley Campus, Beckett Park, Leeds
LS6 3QS
How to get there By bus from St. Johns
Centre. Bus Nos 1,96, 96A Get off at the stop
after St. Chads Church Otley Rd. and walk up
Church Wood Avenue. By car See map. Some parking
available on Campus.
Pax Christi is an International Catholic Movement
for Peace, working to promote a culture of peace
and nonviolence and to ensure that the message
of peace is heard by the church, by
decision-makers and those working in our
communities. Contact Pax Christi, St. Josephs,
Watford Way, London NW4 4TY. Tel. [phone]
www.paxchristi.org.uk