Maryknoll Affiliates

Where: Mother Louis Room of the St. Joseph Center
480 S. Batavia, Orange, CA 92868

Date: February 24, 2012

Time: 7:00 – 9:00 PM

Admission is Free

Long time peace activist, Father John Dear offers a compelling new reading of the story of Lazarus, which calls us all to pursue a life of peace. 

Fr. John will lead a two hour book study of John 11, the story of the raising of Lazarus from the dead, suggesting that Lazarus represents "humanity" stuck in the culture of death and Jesus represents "the God of Life".

If Lazarus represents humanity, the story of his raising is about the God of Life confronting the power of death itself, calling humanity to walk out of its tomb—the culture of violence and war—and into "the new life of resurrection peace."

John Dear, S.J., is a Jesuit priest and peace activist whose many books include Living Peace: A Spirituality of Contemplation and Action (Image, 2004) and The Questions of Jesus (Image 2004). His Orbis titles include You Will Be My Witnesses (2006), and, as editor, Mohandas Gandhi: Essential Writings (2002) and Daniel Berrigan: Essential Writings (2010). Dear writes a weekly online column for The National Catholic Reporter.

Co-sponsored by Center for Spiritual Development, Orange County Pax Christi and Justice Office of Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange+.

For Registration please Gerri Scharff, CSD Registrar: 714-744-3175 ext. 4409 or gscharff@csjorange.org.

Following the example of our first California Regional Coordinators, Marta and Charlie Reilly of San Diego, we decided that it was important that we visit all the Affiliate Chapters in California as the new Regional Coordinators. We worked out a plan to visit the Northern and Central California Chapters during the week of May 9 -13, 2011.