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"Making the 1998 U.N. resolution our own, the Congregation of the Sisters of Divine Providence declares the years 2001-2010 as the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of this World."
(Acts of the General Chapter, 2001)

"The peacemaker has a single vocation; to keep the vision of oneness, of wholeness, of unity, of God's unconditional love for all, alive in the marketplace."

- Mary Lou Kownacki, OSB

Great and wonderful are your works, wondrous are your ways.

Thank you for the many splendored variety of your creation.

Thank you for the many ways we affirm your presence and purpose,

and the freedom to do so. We stand in awe and gratitude for your

persistent love for each and all of your children:

Christian, Jew, Muslim, as well as those of other faiths.

(World Council of Churches)