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Brandywine Peace Community Monthly Potluck/Program: Sharing/Celebrating the life of Fr. Daniel Berrigan
June 12, 2016 @ 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm
FREE
Sunday, June 12 – Celebrating the Life of Father Daniel Berrigan, S.J.(May 9, 1921 – April 30, 2016) , with music, readings poetry, from Daniel Berrigan, and more from the just published book of letters between Daniel and his brother, Phil.
This celebration is intended as a sharing.
So bring your literary passage from a book or poem by Daniel, or a memory, a story, some photos, to the Brandywine Peace Community celebration of the life of Daniel Berrigan.
Come to the Brandywine Peace Community monthly potluck supper and program, 2nd Sunday of the month, at University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (corner of 37th & Chestnut St, in the University City section of the city, limited parking in lot at the rear of the church)
4:30p.m. Potluck Supper (bring main dish, salad, or dessert). Program begins at 5:30p.m.
IN PHILLY we need to celebrate that commitment and legacy. We need to celebrate Dan Berrigan!
Do you remember or have you heard of the Plowshares 8 action at GE in King of Prussia, PA (now, Lockheed Martin) that involved both Daniel and Philip Berrigan, enacting the Isaiah prophesy of “beating swords into plowshares.’
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/11/us/eight-sentenced-in-1980-protest-at-nuclear-unit.html
Daniel Berrigan was one of the great peacemakers in history, legendary war resister and political prisoner,”undergound fugitive” from war, poet, Jesuit priest, author of fifty books (see link below), university educator, and one of the truly spiritual leaders in American history.
Here are a few links that will give you a taste of this astonishing figure, a peacemaking prophet, beginning with a look back at Dan’s life and interview by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now, including an extensive interview with him.
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/5/30/remembering_father_daniel_berrigan_a_prophet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Berrigan
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/nyregion/daniel-j-berrigan-defiant-priest-who-preached-pacifism-dies-at-94.html?_r=0