September, 2016
Dear friends and
family,
For the past
five years, we, the elders at Jonah House, have been in the process of turning
over the Jonah House Community and St. Peter’s Cemetery maintenance to the
younger generation. As we continue this transition, we have begun, once
again, to feel the freedom to re-enter more fully into the ministry of
peacemaking.
The new core
community at Jonah House– Emily Parr & Tucker Brown, and Joe
Byrne-were attracted to our charism. They had participated
in the life of Jonah House over the years, and responded to the call to come.
They are forming community here! They are embracing this space with all the
creativity that comes out of their lives and experience.
We find
them respectful of the history and witness of Jonah House at the same time as
they embrace the challenge to put their own stamp on it and to recruit new
members. Check the reactivated web - www.jonahhouse.org.
We experience them and their commitment as strong, deeply rooted in the Spirit,
open to the participation of a wide circle of family and friends. Also,
the children (Auggie and Evie) bring wonder and amazement!
Our yearnings for new community are gratefully fulfilled in them and in their
process. What a blessing!
As we transition we want
you to know that we have closed the Jonah House account so checks may no
longer be made out to it.
Also, we provide you with
the best contact information:
Emily, Tucker and Joe: Jonah House, 1301 Moreland Ave., Baltimore MD.
21216,
Phone: 410-233-6238 , e-mail: engage@jonahhouse.org. Donations for programs should be made out to
St. Peter Cemetery Restoration Fund.
Carol Gilbert, OP and Ardeth Platte, OP: 1303 Moreland Ave, Baltimore MD
21216,
Elizabeth McAlister: Benincasa, 133 W. 70th St., New York,
NY 10023
Phone: 443-804-6938
e-mail: lizmcalister39@g.mail.com
(
After 43 years working to build
the Jonah House vision, Liz feels the call and need to leave and to
embrace whatever the Spirit is opening…)
It is a new moment,
a new day and we give gratitude to God. We say ‘Presente’ to all who
lived and served here and now celebrate their resurrection. We are
profoundly grateful to the builders, work crews, residents, donors, caretakers,
counselors, visitors, etc. who gave for us to be able to continue this St.
Peter Cemetery oasis and our own peacemaking lives. We express deeper
gratitude to the new Community in the transformation being lived, as they carry
Jonah House, the International Peace House/Community into the
future.
All
of you remain in our hearts and prayers,
Liz,
Carol and Ardeth
Donations
can be sent to the Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 325 E. 25th St., Baltimore, MD
21218. Ph: 410-323-1607; Email: mobuszewski [at] verizon.net. Go to http://baltimorenonviolencecenter.blogspot.com/
"The master class
has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.
The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject
class has had nothing to gain and everything to lose--especially their
lives." Eugene Victor Debs
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