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Peace Day – Sunday, Sept 21 – Meditation and Mindfulness as a Path to Peace!

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September 21st was set aside as the International Day of Peace by the United Nations in 2002. The assembly declared that the day should be observed as a day of global ceasefire and non-violence.

What: Patapsco Friends Meeting will offer sessions about meditation, mantras, mindfulness and how they relate to community and world peace.

When: Sept 21 2014, 1:15 PM to 4:15 PM

Where: Hebron House, 2331 Calvin Circle, Ellicott City, MD 21043

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Peace One Day is the dream of a British filmmaker, Jeremy Gilley, who proposed in 1998 that we set aside one day a year — Sept. 21 — as a ceasefire from all warfare and violence across the globe. He won the endorsement of the UN just four days before the attacks on New York on Sept. 11, 2001, and he has been working every since to make this idea of ceasefire a reality.

To see the film free online, select this link and then select ‘The Day After Peace’

July 27, 2014 – Maryland CURE and Prison Reform

On July 27, Lea Green, president of Maryland-CURE
(Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants), and 3 other representatives visited Patapsco Friends.

After Meeting, Lea spoke about the mission of CURE, and how Maryland CURE is working with other organizations, including the Greater Annapolis Interfaith Network (GAIN), to lobby the Maryland legislature for prison reform.

Maryland CURE is a state chapter of International CURE, an organization dedicated to reducing crime through reform of the criminal justice system since 1972. CURE is the oldest and largest prison reform organization in the United States.

6/22/2014 at Noon – Dialogue with Diane Randall, Executive Secretary of Friends Committee on National Legislation

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Diane will speak on “Engaging Congress in the Manner of Friends–How the Friends Committee on National Legislation Works in Washington.” She will also address how civility and compromise can help heal the divide in Congress and in our society at large.

Diane joined FCNL in March, 2011 as the fourth Executive Secretary in its 70-year history. Diane travels widely on behalf of FCNL and represents a voice for Quaker advocacy in Washington on the Hill, within the faith community, in media, and throughout the United States.
 

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Founded in 1943 by members of the Religious Society of Friends, FCNL’s nonpartisan, multi-issue advocacy connects historic Quaker testimonies on peace, equality, simplicity, and truth with peace and social justice issues. FCNL fields the largest team of registered peace lobbyists in Washington, DC.

June 8 at 9 am Chesapeake Quarterly Meeting in Lusby, MD

ButterfliesAttheMeetingHousePatuxent Friends Meeting

12175 Southern Connector Blvd.
Lusby, MD 20657

will be hosting

Chesapeake Quarterly Meeting
Sunday, June 8, 2014

[click here for printer-ready flyer]

Come learn about inspiring work educating children in rural Senegal,
plus learn on site and in person about the Cove Point Natural Gas facility
that would export fracked gas!

8:45 Gathering and Light Refreshments Continue reading June 8 at 9 am Chesapeake Quarterly Meeting in Lusby, MD