Pax Christi Minnesota

Choosing the Non-Violent Way of Compassion
Saturday, September 26, 2009
St. Frances Cabrini Church, Minneapolis, MN

Keynote by Michael Crosby

Michael Crosby is a Capuchin Franciscan. He lives in community with other friars in a downtown Milwaukee parish that serves the urban poor, homeless and marginated.

Schedule of Events
9:00  Registration
9:30  Opening prayer and Welcome
10:00 Morning Keynote
11:45 Lunch
12:30 Pax Christi USA
1:00  First Afternoon Keynote
2:30  Break/Socializing
3:00  Second Afternoon Keynote
4:00  Closing prayer and Announcements

For more information and to register, please print out the Pax Christi MN 2009 State Assembly and mail in.

Co-sponsored by St. Frances Cabrini Justice and Peace Coalition.

April 6, 2009

On April 6, 2009, Joe and Marilyn Schmit received the Caritas Award from the College of St. Benedict and St. Johns University.  Each year a distinguished Saint John’s Alumnus and a Saint Benedict’s Alumna and two upper class students – one from each campus – are selected to receive this award for their commitment to social change and social justice.

The Schmits have spent their entire 52 years of married life working for social justice on a local, national and global level. They pressured their elected representatives in the 1980s to stop funding the contra rebels in Nicaragua and spoke out against the production of land mines and nuclear weapons. Marilyn was arrested three times for protesting aid to the contra rebels and is a member of Women Against Military Madness. She gave 30 talks after her trip to Nicaragua in 1985. Joe raised eyebrows at a San Francisco physics conference in 1985 when he asked his colleagues for a moment of silence on the 40th anniversary of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, Japan. Currently, Joe is an electrician for Habitat for Humanity, and has done taxes for low income and elderly people for 18 years. They both actively support efforts to close the School of the Americas, Fort Benning, Ga., provide supplies for needy school children in Nicaragua and struggling families in Mexico, and sponsor the Marilyn Scholl Schmit Scholarship for Peace Studies at CSB.

Congratulations to Joe and Marilyn!

PC Twin Cities invites you to join them for their upcoming Meditation and Prayer Gathering

Saturday, April 25
St. Joan of Arc Parish Center, 4537 3rd Ave. So. Minneapolis

These gatherings are open and welcoming to all who wish to join for reflection and prayer.  If you would like to volunteer to facilitate one of their upcoming monthly prayer/meditation gatherings, please let PC Twin Cities know and they would be happy to add you to their schedule.

Darlene White will facilitate and has provided the following reflection piece.

Leaning on God

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St. Michael’s Multipurpose Room
1600 South Marian Road (Entrance F)
Sioux Falls, S.D.

Bishop Tom Gumbleton, longtime national and international activist in the peace movement and founding bishop president of Pax Christi USA, will be the featured speaker at the fifth annual Growing Peace South Dakota Pax Christi conference.

Registration begins at 9:00 a.m. A freewill donation will be collected for the conference fees, and there will be a $7 charge for lunch. The event is open to the public and all those interested in peace and justice are encouraged to attend.

This annual conference is sponsored by the Presentation Sisters’ Social Justice Team and Pax Christi chapters including: Aberdeen, West River, and Southeastern South Dakota and Estherville, Iowa.

For more information, please contact:

Growing Peace Conference Info

PC Twin Cities purchased a water filter set through Water for Peace for a school in Najaf similar to this one.  For more information or to purchase a water filter for another school in Iraq, visit www.mpt-iraq.org