Peace Pilgrimage 2010 -- A Gospel Beginning

Peace Pilgrimage 2010
A Gospel Beginning

A New Year's Celebration
of Daily Prayer and Community
In the Spirit of Taize
with Stefan Andre Waligur

Rolling Ridge and Still Point Retreat Centers
December 31 - January 3, 2010

In August 2009, more than 300 people came together for the first Pilgrimage of Peace at Rolling Ridge, where for one month we gathered in a daily rhythm of sung prayer, silence, shared meals, common work, conversation, reflection, and play.

It was an exciting time -- a little community was being born. And now perhaps an ecumenical monastic community like Taize is emerging with your loving support. We want to take a second step and joyfully invite you and your friends to come to a New Year 2010 Pilgrimage of Peace at Still Point and Rolling Ridge.

From Thursday December 31 at 4:00 pm to Sunday January 3 at 4:00 pm, we'll sing and pray, share together in silence and conversation, work and play.

Come for a part of a day, a day, or a few days. Come alone or with your friends. Come with your children or your animal friends. All are welcome. There is no set fee for this time, though we will take up daily contributions to help out with the lodging and food expenses.

Help us spread the word, and share your gifts, including food! Together we'll bring the New Year in and together we'll take a second step in co-creating a Community of Peace. Together we'll search for the sources of peace.

"I seek the One whom my soul loves..." Song of Solomon

To register e-mail swaligur@yahoo.com and let us know how long you'll be staying so we can plan to welcome you.

Looking forward to seeing you!

Your little brother,
Stefan

Email: swaligur@yahoo.com
Phone: 901.570.1439
Web: www.songsofpeace.net

Stefan Andre Waligur is a contemplative musician/composer, retreat leader, and peace activist connected for many years with the Church of the Saviour in Washington DC. For the past ten years Stefan has been going to Taize, an ecumenical Christian monastic community in France where most weeks during spring and summer between one and six thousand young people descend upon the small community to join them three times a day in simple chants, common meals, reflection on questions of spirituality and social justice, and simple work and play.

A prayer has been forming in Stefan ever since his first visit: Has the time come to create for this country an ecumenical monastic community of both men and women that is self supportive, is devoted to simplicity, creates a beautiful sung prayer, has a heart for the poor, and offers a deep welcome to all who come to visit?

Here in the United States there is a great need for such a community: a community that unifies the Body of Christ and engages both the inner life of prayer and at the same time struggles to respond to the social and political injustices of our time.