{"id":2970,"date":"2021-03-17T14:52:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T20:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/?p=2500"},"modified":"2021-10-25T06:59:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T12:59:03","slug":"aberdeen-planting-and-growing-seeds-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/aberdeen-planting-and-growing-seeds-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Aberdeen: Planting and Growing Seeds of Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Above: May the Peace, love, hope and joy of our non-violent Jesus be with each of you. No exceptions. Sister Kay O\u2019Neil<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sisters Kay O\u2019Neil and Michelle Meyers had the distinction of receiving the first annual Artisan of Peace Recognition by the South Dakota Pax Christi Chapters, via Zoom, on Saturday, February 27, 2021.\u00a0 Present were members from Sioux Falls, Watertown, Brookings and Aberdeen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The expression, &#8220;artisan of peace,&#8221; originates with Pope Francis in an address he gave on September 21, 2016, at the World Day of Prayer for Peace in Assisi, when he said, \u201c\u2026believers, regardless of their faith are called to be \u2018artisans of peace.\u2019\u201d\u00a0He went on to describe the word for peace a \u2018challenging art of communion.\u2019 In his most recent encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, 231, he continues to describe peace in terms of \u2018art\u2019.\u00a0He writes, \u201cthere is an \u2018art\u2019 of peace that involves us all\u2026we cannot ignore the involvement of ordinary people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Father John Dear spoke to the Aberdeen Presentation Sisters around 1998. In conversation Father Dear challenged Sisters Michelle and Kay to start Pax Christi in South Dakota.\u00a0 They organized the annual Growing Peace Conference which drew national speakers.\u00a0 These well-known peace activists included Bishop Tom Gumbleton, Father John Dear, Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, Martha Hennessy (grand-daughter of Dorothy Day) and Kathy Kelly. The Presentation Sisters later collaborated on the sponsorship of these conferences with the Benedictine Sisters of Watertown, S.D.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny Zokovitch, executive director of Pax Christi USA, has known Sisters Kay and Michelle for the past 30 years, so it was with much joy that he was able to share his admiration for all they have done.\u00a0He said, \u201cthe art of peace requires skill, practice and perseverance.\u00a0Peace building is not easy.\u00a0Sisters Kay and Michelle are living examples of what it takes to be peacebuilders.\u00a0They are truly \u2018artisans of peace.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through all they have done in the name of promoting peace and justice in our world, it is clear that not only did Sisters Kay and Michelle plant seeds of peace, but peace grew beyond anyone\u2019s imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above: May the Peace, love, hope and joy of our non-violent Jesus be with each of you. No exceptions. Sister Kay O\u2019Neil Sisters Kay O\u2019Neil and Michelle Meyers had the<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/aberdeen-planting-and-growing-seeds-of-peace\/\" title=\"ReadAberdeen: Planting and Growing Seeds of Peace\">&#8230; Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3035,"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions\/3035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}