ANNUAL EVENTS

• PAX CHRISTI BALTIMORE ANNUAL ADVENT PRAYER SERVICE 2021 You are invited to Pax Christi Baltimore’s Annual Advent Prayer Service (the past two Advent Prayer Services were cancelled due to COVID)
  
  This year’s speaker: BALTIMORE BISHOP DENIS MADDEN
  
  It will be held at St. Vincent DePaul Church
  Front Street in downtown Baltimore
  (next to the Main Post Office and across Fayette Street from the Shot Tower)
  On Sunday, December 12, 2021 from 5 pm-6:30 pm
  Admission is free (donations gratefully accepted), parish parking available
  Masks are required. We encourage attendees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
• Sponsorship of a workshop at the Baltimore Archdiocesan Social Ministry Convocation (February or March) (and a member of the Convocation Planning Committee)
• Good Friday Stations of the Cross in downtown Baltimore (March or April)
• Co-sponsored Catholic High School senior awards (Baltimore area Catholic high schools) For seven years, Pax Christi Baltimore and the P. Francis Murphy Justice and Peace Initiative (when active) have co-sponsored an annual “Bishop P. Francis Murphy Peacemaker Award” to a selected senior at selected Catholic high schools in the Baltimore area. We seek to revive these awards soon. (May)
• “Day of Reflection” (October) presented at St. Vincent DePaul parish (featured speakers have included Sr. Patricia Chappell, former Executive Director of Pax Christi USA)
• Participating in Pax Christi Metro DC-Baltimore “Peacemaker of the Year” awards and dinner, at a location usually in the DC area. (November)
• Advent Prayer Service usually on either the first or second Sunday of Advent, now presented at St. Vincent DePaul Parish, with a featured speaker from the Baltimore area (November or December)

SELECTED RECENT ACTIVITIES

• In 2018, Pax Christi-Baltimore participated in a coalition of individuals and groups presenting a wide range of events and activities commemorating 50 years of the Catonsville 9 (1968). As part of those activities, Pax Christi Baltimore presented an ecumenical prayer service at Salem Lutheran Church in Catonsville with the Charm City Labor Chorus offering the music and Rev. Joseph Muth (of St. Mathew Catholic Church in Baltimore) as the featured speaker.
• In 2016, Pax Christi Baltimore hosted the National Assembly of Pax Christi USA in Baltimore. The weekend-long Assembly presented several workshops and a trip to a neighborhood in West Baltimore, where Assembly participants worked with residents of that neighborhood in cleaning up and sprucing up various parts of that block. A closing liturgy featured the “alternative liturgy” developed by Pax Christi Baltimore.
• In 2004, Pax Christi/Baltimore presented a unique series of “follow up” discussion sessions at three locations in the Archdiocese in a single weekend, to provide an opportunity for parish peace and justice committee members to review ways to further energize their parishes for prayer and action on peace and justice issues. In April 2005, Pax Christi was part of the revised version of that concept, “Continuing Our Journey,” co-sponsored byCHD, the P. Francis Murphy Justice & Peace Initiative, and Beyond the Boundaries.

SELECTED PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES SINCE 1985

• Participating in the Black Lives Matter monthly vigils, organized by Call to Action- Maryland
• Co-sponsoring group for “Open Windows Festival”—A Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Vatican II (October, 2013—October, 2015)
• Prayer Service and Seminar on 40th Anniversary of Pacem en Terris (Bon Secours Spiritual Center and St. Matthew Parish, April, 2003*)
• Prayer Service and panel discussion for the 50th Anniversary of Pacem en Terris (April 2013)
• The “Tent of Abraham”—Annual day long event featuring a panel presentation, silent reflection, an interfaith prayer service, questions and answers, and closing with shared food and drink (October, 2006- 2010), exclusively presented by Pax Christi Baltimore
• A weekend long series of events for Catonsville 9 at 25 (May, 1993), including all of the surviving members of the Catonsville 9 (minus one), a prayer service, and workshops (presented at Goucher College), in cooperation with Jonah House, Viva House, and other groups
• Prayer service and Conference/Events for Catonsville 9 at 35 (Goucher College, May, 2003)
• Several activities and events for Catonsville 9 at 40 (May, 2008)
• Several activities and major events for Catonsville 9 at 50 (May, 2018), participated in a broad coalition of individuals and like-minded groups, meeting monthly for a year, and designed and presented an ecumenical prayer service
• Participating group for Baltimore’s “Eyes Wide Open” a series of events featuring a display of boots-- display also by states--for every soldier killed in the Iraq War (September, 2005) (touring display)
• Prayer Service, Teach In, Program and Events for Pax Christi/USA “Bread Not Stones” Bus Tour visit to Baltimore (College of Notre Dame, October, 2000)
• Seminar featuring Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, former Bishop President of Pax Christi USA (Bon Secours Spiritual Center, March, 2004*)

SPECIAL LITURGIES

• Throughout 2004-2008, Pax Christi/Baltimore has presented a special monthly “Service of Peace” generally on the third Saturday of each month, at the Newman Center in Towson University. This unique ecumenical eucharistic prayer service combines some traditional liturgical elements with innovative approaches for a new and participatory experience focusing on collaboration, connection, and commitment to peace in the world. Pax Christi Baltimore will present this “Service of Peace/Alternative Liturgy” to a parish or other church by appointment.