The Spirituality of Nonviolence

 The Spirituality of Nonviolence...

Franciscan peacemakers Rosemary lynch and Alan Richard have identified 10 “commandments” for those seeking to live a spiritual life of nonviolence. They call it “the decalogue for a spirituality of nonviolence”.

1.      Learn to recognize and respect “the sacred” and every person, including in ourselves, and in every piece of creation.

2.      To accept oneself deeply, “who I am” with all my gifts and riches, with all my limitations, errors, failings and weaknesses, and to realize that I am accepted by God.

3.      To recognize that what I resent, and perhaps even the detest in another, comes from my difficulty in admitting that this same reality lives also in me....






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