The Public Lecture is a regular feature of Ireland Yearly Meeting and is usually presented as an evening session in the course of the meeting. The lecture in 2010 was given by ANNE BENNETT
LIVING THE VISION – BUILDING PEACE – A PERSONAL JOURNEY
INTRODUCTION
I should like to thank Ireland Yearly Meeting for giving me this opportunity to give the Public Lecture for 2010. I was asked to talk about building peace through my work at Quaker House Belfast and elsewhere. This is not an academic exploration of the issues. It’s about my experiences and stories of some of the people I have met during my work who have taught me so much. Towards the end of my talk I will explore some of the issues facing us today and in the future – the challenges for Quakers.
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The Yearly Meeting Epistle is a traditional greeting, written in the course of each country’s Yearly Meeting and agreed to by all the participants. The Epistle is sent to Yearly Meetings throughout the world.
RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS)
IRELAND YEARLY MEETING
Quaker House Dublin, Stocking Lane, Dublin 16
Fax/Phone/Answering – 01 4956889
e-mail – office@quakers-in-ireland.ie
To Friends everywhere
Dear Friends
We send loving greetings from Ireland Yearly Meeting met in spring sunshine from 8-11 April 2010 in Lisburn. The underlying theme which emerged was one of being true to our vision. Our Testimonies are a vision of a way of living. They express our beliefs in words which leads to action. Jesus taught us to think positively and to live our lives in God’s enabling love.
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Christopher Moriarty
This article is based on a talk arranged by Monkstown Meeting in the Darwin bicentenary year. It was first published in The Friendly Word January-February 2010.
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. (more…)
Article first published in The Friendly Word November-December 2009
by
Christopher Moriarty
This year saw the triumphant conclusion of years of work by Mario Corrigan and his colleagues at the Kildare County Library in the publication of the definitive edition of a very remarkable 19th century book. Of particular interest to Friends because of the Quaker life of its author, The annals of Ballitore is also a vital source work in social history.
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