18TH ANNUAL SADAKO PEACE DAY CEREMONY

18th Annual Sadako Peace Day Ceremony On this 67th anniversary of Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings, join us in the beautiful Sadako Peace Garden, an International Garden for Peace. Together we will share reflections on peace, music and poetry, as we witness to and work for peace on our world.

The Peace Garden at La Casa is dedicated to the memory of Sadako Sasaki, the brave and athletic Japanese girl who inspired the world. She was only 12 years old when she was diagnosed with leukemia. She had been exposed to radiation from the Hiroshima atomic bomb at the age of two.

She started folding origami paper cranes after a friend reminded her of a legend: if a person folds a thousand cranes, he or she will live to be very old. As Sadako folded the cranes, she would say the words written above. "I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world."

Sadako set out to fold 1,000 cranes and inspired by here children around the world have continued to fold the paper cranes as a symbol of peace.

The Sadako Peace Garden at La Casa de Maria was installed in 1995, on the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. It is also one of the International Gardens for Peace.

Co-sponsored with Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

August 6 Monday, 6 - 7 pm

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Programs La Casa de Maria 800 El Bosque Road Santa Barbara CA 93108

registerb@lcdm.org (805) 969-5031

PINK SMOKE OVER THE VATICAN

PINK SMOKE OVER THE VATICAN

poster design - William Calvo

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Monday, August 6TH Santa Barbara Unity Church – 7:00 PM 227 Arrellaga St., Santa Barbara

Pink Smoke Over the Vatican • Explores evidence of women priests in the early Church. • Shows that the Church holds woman’s priesthood as a spiritual impossibility. • Discloses this movement as women’s global fight for equality and justice. • Reveals unique interviews with these ardent women and their supporters. • Confirms why these deeply religious women defy the Vatican. • Confirms their refusal to leave the Church they love and call home.

Pink Smoke Over the Vatican • Explores complex ethical choices made by these women. • Shows a painful discernment between man’s law and God’s law. • Discloses women’s internal battles of going against the Church they love. • Reveals external battles with the Church hierarchy. • Confirms prejudice against powerful women in the church and the world. • Confirms that these women have been undeniably touched by spirit.

Pink Smoke Over the Vatican • Will move both Catholics and the general public alike. • Will inform, is beautifully filmed and edited, with a powerful soundtrack. • Will inspire any women or men who have experienced discrimination and marginalization to stand up to power, no matter the odds, and follow their true call.

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