What Part of
"Thou Shalt Not Kill"
Do We Not Understand?
Kirkridge Retreat: Daniel Berrigan/Elizabeth McAlister
Read the Reflections:
Introduction
What is it about 'Thou shalt not kill' that we don't understand
"Nonviolence or nonexistence' as the message of Jesus, the Apocalyptic Prophet
September 17-19, 2004
2495 Fox Gap Road Bangor , PA 18013
(610) 588-1793
Years ago, Daniel Berrigan wrote this statement: "It's a hell of a way to spend one's life - objecting to the killing of people!" And yet that is what has circumscribed and, to a degree, molded the lives of both presenters at this retreat. We assert that violence does not save, that war does not bring peace, that might does not make right. They never have and they never will.
In the course of this retreat we will:
• listen for God to speak rather than speak for God;
• explore the metaphor of the journey not the fortress;
• look for forgiveness rather than victory;
• pray for a new heart rather than a successful foreign policy.
We will be guided by Jesus ':
• concern for victims, outcasts and the marginalized (Matthew 5);
• rejection of domination hierarchies ( Luke 12:37 and 22:24-27; Matthew 23:8-10; and John 15:15);
• rejection of violence (Luke 9:51-56 and 22:51; and Matthew 5:43-48 and 26:52).
Led by Fr. Daniel Berrigan , S.J. , poet, peacemaker and author of books on the prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah , Ezekiel and Daniel . His latest book is on Lamentations. Liz McAlister is a peace activist, author and co-founder of Jonah House in Baltimore.