That ALL may be one. Pax. For ALL ... God's blessings and His peace.
In Spite of Darkness. A Spiritual Encounter with Auschwitz. Christiane: “My grandfather was with the Nazis. We called it “Schreibtischtäter” So they always said in the family, he only was sitting on a desk and writing. And it was a total taboo to talk about what he did.” John: “My knowledge of Auschwitz is that it was probably the culmination of a lot of the programs to eliminate the Jews.” Ohad : “The potential of dehumanizing the other is there. Since we are not so different, me and my German friends, I could be a Nazi.” In 2006, a group of 50 retreatants gathered in Krakow, Poland in preparation for an interfaith retreat on the grounds of the death camps of Auschwitz/Birkenau. How can people find peace and spirituality in a place of death and destruction? And yet here every November, people from different faiths and from various countries come together to spend 5 days in meditation, stillness, prayer and ritual. Why would people come on such a retreat? What are their hopes, their …More
Ave Maria. Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.