Dublin Monthly Meeting Peace Committee plans to hold another Silent Quaker Peace Witness on Saturday Nov 8 from 11.30am to 12.30pm, outside the gates of St Stephen’s Green at the top of Grafton St, Dublin. Friends from all Meetings, and their friends, are once again very welcome.

We are mindful that the following Tuesday 11th November is Armstice Day, which commemorates the ending of World War One in which 15 to 20  million individual people lost their lives.  And how may individuals and families lived with severe physical and mental injury for the rest of their lives?  Was this the war to end wars?

I would like to share with you a reflection given by our Friend Fiona Murdoch recently to the Ireland Interfaith Forum on Peace. I hope you will find a way to share this with many people of all faiths and of none. 

Where do we find the divine — the source of peace?

Did Elijah hear God in the storm, the earthquake, or the fire?
No. It was only when silence fell, did “a still, small voice” emerge.

That same “still, small voice” lives in us all,
called God, Allah, Yahweh, or another name.
Small, yet powerful —
encouraging us to become channels of peace and love.

What if we took time each day to listen in stillness and silence to that voice?
And what if we dared to act on its promptings and leadings?

What if we listened to one another with empathy and respect,
seeing light in every soul,
embracing our differences,
treating all as equals,
speaking love, not fear?

Because the still, small voice is love.
Love for Earth
and for the web of life that holds us all —
human and other-than-human,
seen and unseen,
one sacred whole.

What kind of world might we create
if we tuned into that “still, small voice” within —
and followed its leadings?
If we chose to live with integrity and generosity,
seeing the world’s resources as something to share,
not fight over?

Could we — would we — find the courage
to fan the flames of justice and peace?
To rise, to speak, to act —
and begin to weave a new world?
One not built on fear or greed,
but rooted deeply in love?

It will be then—and only then—
that we can truthfully call ourselves peacemakers.

Thanks

Sean Kinsella, Dublin MM Peace Committee

Dublin Monthly Meeting Peace Committee plans to hold another Silent Quaker Peace Witness on Saturday Aug 2 from 11.30am to 12.30pm, outside the gates of St Stephen’s Green at the top of Grafton St, Dublin. Friends from all Meetings, and their friends, are once again very welcome.

We plan to hold it in the form of a Meeting for Worship as we
stand on the street, with 2 Friends holding a banner which reads
“Quaker Peace Witness” and with two being available with
leaflets to speak with any passer-by who wishes to ask a
question or interact.

We hope that our silent worship will encourage many people to
consider peace and how we may all help to advance it. We
hope that Friends and Attenders from many Meetings, as well as
family members and friends will again come and join us.

Dublin Monthly Meeting Peace Committee plans to hold another Silent Quaker Peace Witness on Saturday May 3 from 11.30am to 12.30pm, outside the gates of St Stephen’s Green at the top of Grafton St, Dublin. Friends from all Meetings, and their friends, are once again very welcome.

We plan to hold it in the form of a Meeting for Worship as we
stand on the street, with 2 Friends holding a banner which reads
“Quaker Peace Witness” and with two being available with
leaflets to speak with any passer-by who wishes to ask a
question or interact.

This manner of public witness worked well at this same place
in November and in February. Maintaining the silent vigil added
to the solemnity of the witness. We were certainly noticed and
looked at with interest by people passing by on foot and on the
Luas.

We hope that our silent worship will encourage many people to
consider peace and how we may all help to advance it. We
hope that Friends and Attenders from many Meetings, as well as
family members and friends will again come and join us.

At the Dublin Monthly Meeting Peace Committee’s Silent Public Peace Witness held on 30th Nov, 37 people maintained a silent presence in the manner of a Meeting for Worship. The participation of number of Friends from Quakers for Peace Waterford was very appreciated.

You are invited to join another public silent Quaker Peace Witness from 11.30am to 12.30pm on 1 Feb, held outside the gates of St Stephen’s Green at the top of Grafton St, Dublin.

Friends from all Meetings are very welcome!

Join Dublin Monthly Meeting Peace Committee in a public silent Quaker Peace Witness outside the gates of St Stephen’s Green at the top of Grafton St, Dublin from 11.30am to 12.30pm on 30 November.

You can help publicise the event with this poster.