Bellerive FCJs Month of Peace From 21 st
Bellerive FCJ’s Month of Peace From 21 st April-21 st May we will be marking a ‘Month of Peace’ within school. We will reflect on our role as peacemakers in our own communities and reflect on why it is important for us to work for peace. We will also be raising money for Pax Christi UK, who have suffered a loss in funding due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Who are Pax Christi? Pax Christi are an international movement for peace, founded in the aftermath in the Second World War. They work to promote Peace, Justice and Non-Violence around the world.
Pilgrimage for Peace As a school, we will be taking part in Pax Christi’s ‘Pilgrimage for Peace’ project to raise money for the organisation. We will be planting sunflower seeds-one for every form. You will be encouraged to sponsor your sunflower to help it grow big and tall! When they bloom, these sunflowers will act as a reminder of our commitment to peace. Your form tutor will give you more information about how to sponsor your sunflower over the coming weeks- we hope that everyone will be able to donate at least £ 1!
Where our sunflowers will be planted!
Bellerive FCJ’s Month of Peace Competition We will also be running a competition throughout our Month of Peace to help you reflect on ideas around peacemaking. Using one of the stimuli on the following slides, we would like you to create a piece of writing or artwork reflecting on theme of peace. This powerpoint is available on the Chaplaincy pages of the school website so you can look over the stimuli in your own time.
Bellerive FCJ’s Month of Peace Competition The winners will be announced on 21 st May by President of Pax Christi UK and Archbishop of Liverpool, Malcolm Mc. Mahon OP. The winner from each category will win a book and a £ 10 Liverpool One voucher.
Judging Panel Aishling Griffin Pax Christi UK Mrs Westwood Deputy Headteacher/ English Teacher Terry Phillips Co-Chair, Liverpool Justice and Peace Commission Mrs Henry Lay Chaplain Mr Carney Teacher of DT/Product Design Sr Maryanne Francalanza FCJ Miss Rowlands Head of RE
How to Enter The closing date for entries is Wednesday 12 th May. Your entries can be handed in to your RE teacher, or to Mrs Henry in the Chapel. You can also email your entry to Miss Rowlands on rowlandsj@bellerivefcj. org There will be a prize for the best piece of artwork and the best piece of writing in the following groups: • Years 7 and 8 • Years 9 and 10 • Years 11, 12 and 13
Stimuli
Option 1 He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. Isaiah 2: 4
Option 2 This statue-Reconciliation by Josefina de Vasconcellos- stands in Coventry Cathedral, which was bombed in World War II. An identical copy stands in Hiroshima in Japan, in the Stormont Parliament in Belfast and the Reichstag Parliament in Berlin. De Vasconcellos said ‘"The sculpture was originally conceived in the aftermath of the War. Europe was in shock, people were stunned. I read in a newspaper about a woman who crossed Europe on foot to find her husband, and I was so moved that I made the sculpture. Then I thought that it wasn't only about the reunion of two people but hopefully a reunion of nations which had been fighting. "
Option 3 Catholic peace activist Dorothy Day facing sheriffs at a protest. When arthritis made standing difficult, Day confronted sheriffs from her portable three-legged stool.
Option 4 “In the beginning, I really begged him not to put his life at stake, but then, when everyone was quarrelling with him and scolding him, I didn’t do it anymore … If I had not stood by him, he would have had no one. ” Franziska Jagestatter, whose husband was killed for refusing to fight in Hitler’s army
Option 5 This image of Sister Ann Rose Nu Twang was taken in Myanmmar on 8 th March 2021. Police in Myanmmar are cracking down on protests following a military coup in the country. As protestors gathered, police fired shots into the crowd, which included children. Kneeling before them in the dust of a northern Myanmar city, Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng begged a group of heavily armed police officers to spare “the children” and take her life instead. “I knelt down … begging them not to shoot and torture the children, but to shoot me and kill me instead, ” she said.
Option 6 Lord, make me an instrument of your peace: where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Prayer of St Francis of Assisi
Any questions/ideas? Please speak to Mrs Henry in the Chapel or Miss Rowlands in 11 B Good Luck-and happy peacemaking!
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