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[Sharon McCarthy]

THANKS Dean!
The words speak to us!
Let’s listen and follow through!
Sharon

On Fri, May 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM Roberto J. via Sundaycommunity <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> 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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