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[Roberto J.]

Thank you for sharing.
Roberto

On Fri, May 9, 2025, 6:12 p.m. Dean Riley via Sundaycommunity <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> Greetings to all members of our Sunday Community.
>
> I had sent a message this morning to Dwyer Sullivan as today (May 9)
> would’ve been the 82nd birthday of his wife, Sheila - who along with Sylvia
> were both very integral to the development of our program for Canadian
> student groups here in the DR. Dwyer sent me the following response…
>
> *…Sheila was born on Mother’s Day 1943 and has always been a big proponent
> of the original Mother’s Day Proclamation for Peace by Julie Ward Howe. You
> can look it up, very meaningful in these days of violence and war.*
> *Best wishes to you.*
> *Dwyer.*
>
> I searched the internet and found the information included below on the
> Plough website…
>
> From the website: “*Plough Publishing House, founded in 1920, is an
> independent publisher of books on faith, society, and the spiritual life.
> We’re based in Walden, New York with branches in the United Kingdom and
> Australia.*”
>
> After further messages back-and-forth between Dwyer and I, we both came to
> agree that this is something that would be appropriate to share with our
> Community given that this Sunday is Mother’s Day. You will find the entire
> article below.
>
> Many blessings to all…
>
> Dean.
>
> -::-::-::-
>
> [image: image0.jpeg]
>
> While countries around the world celebrate their own Mother’s Day at
> different times throughout the year, several countries, including the
> United States, Italy, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, and Turkey
> celebrate it on the second Sunday of May.
> In the United States, the official holiday stems from the efforts of Anna
> Jarvis of Philadelphia, who in 1907 began a campaign to have Mother’s Day
> officially recognized. In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson did this,
> proclaiming it a national holiday and a “public expression of our love and
> reverence for all mothers.”
>
> Long before that however, in 1870, Julia Ward Howe – an abolitionist best
> remembered as the poet who wrote “Battle Hymn of the Republic” – worked to
> establish a Mother’s Peace Day. Howe dedicated the celebration to the
> eradication of war, and organized festivities in Boston for years.
>
> Today’s commercialized celebration of candy, flowers, gift certificates,
> and lavish meals at restaurants bears little resemblance to Howe’s original
> idea. There is nothing wrong with that. But here, for the record’s sake, is
> the proclamation she wrote in 1870, which explains, in her own impassioned
> words, the goals of the original holiday.
>
> *Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water
> or of tears! Say firmly: “We will not have great questions decided by
> irrelevant agencies, our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with
> carnage, for caresses and applause.*
>
> *“Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been
> able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. We women of one country
> will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be
> trained to injure theirs.”*
>
> *From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own. It
> says, “Disarm, disarm! The sword is not the balance of justice.” Blood does
> not wipe out dishonor nor violence indicate possession.*
>
> *As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war,
> let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest
> day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate
> the dead. Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the
> means whereby the great human family can live in peace, each learning after
> his own time, the sacred impress, not of Caesar, but of God.*
>
> *In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general
> congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed and held at
> some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent
> with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
> the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general
> interests of peace.*
>
> Julia Ward Howe
> (1819-1910)
>
> [image: image0.jpeg]
>
> Sheila (Murphy) Sullivan
> (1943 - 2018)
>
> [image: image1.jpeg]
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