Globe-Trotting Peach Torch Will Light Up Park Ceremony
FOR THE RECORD (published June 27, 1995): The worldwide Peace Run and Peace Torch will arrive in Spokane Wednesday morning. To commemorate the event, a peace ceremony is scheduled for 11:40 a.m. at Riverfront Park’s Clock Tower. The day was wrong in an IN Life story published Saturday.
The worldwide Peace Run and Peace Torch will caravan across Washington state to arrive in Spokane Monday morning.
The run will enter the city from the west via Highway 2. Runners will follow Sunset Highway until they reach Third Avenue.
At Third and Wall, the run turns left toward Riverfront Park.
To commemorate the event, a peace ceremony is scheduled for 11:40 a.m. at Riverfront Park’s Clock Tower.
The Peace Run was founded in 1985 by India native Sri Chinmoy as a way to spread a message of global peace. The run through 70 countries is completed every two years.
Chinmoy, an author and world peace ambassador with the United Nations, conducted peace prayers and meditations at the UN building for 25 years.
On May 31 this year, Pope John Paul II blessed the Peace Torch.
Anyone can carry the torch on Monday, and it’s not necessary to be an athlete. One can even walk with the torch.
All that’s required to carry the torch is to ask a member of the Peace Run core team, which stays with the torch and sees that the run remains on schedule.
“You really feel like you’re doing something for peace,” said Peter Fountain, Washington coordinator of the Peace Run, “Everyone plays a role in world peace, and that’s kind of the idea of passing the torch.”
From Spokane, the Peace Run and torch move toward Idaho and will be in Sandpoint on Tuesday.
The U.S. segment of this year’s run began in New York in April. When it concludes in August in New York, 11,000 miles will have been covered.
Jesuits are ordained
Three members of the Society of Jesus, an order founded by St. Ignatius, will become ordained priests at noon today at St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church, 330 E. Boone.
Those to be ordained into the society, also known as the Jesuits, are J.K. Adams, Kevin Connell and Stephen Hess.
It takes about 13 years, the longest process of any religious order, to complete the training and education to become a Jesuit priest.
Adams, a native of Great Falls, Mont., entered the Jesuits in 1985.
He received a double bachelor’s degree in philosophy and religious studies from Gonzaga University and earned his Master of Divinity degree at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkley, Calif.
Adams plans to make youth ministry the focus of his work. Gonzaga Prep will be his first assignment as priest.
Connell, originally from Butte, Mont., taught English this past year at Gonzaga Prep. Next year he’ll be on staff at Jesuit High School in Portland.
A Shakespeare enthusiast, Connell holds a bachelor’s degree in English and philosophy from GU. He earned a master’s in divinity from Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass.
He entered the Jesuits in 1981.
Hess, who grew up in Anaconda, Mont., received both his bachelor’s degree in speech communication and his master’s degree in organizational leadership from GU. He studied philosophy at Loyola University in Chicago and acquired his Master of Divinity degree from Weston School of Theology.
Hess, who entered the Jesuits in 1982, spent a couple of years at Gonzaga as director of student activities.
House of Faith
Habitat for Humanity and five Spokane Roman Catholic Churches - Our Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of Lourdes, Sacred Heart, St. Ann’s and St. Augustine’s - want to build a home for a low-income family.
But to build their House of Faith, members need to raise $45,000. So far, they have received $19,000 in donations.
To help reach its goal, Habitat for Humanity and the five churches will sponsor a fund-raising picnic at Comstock Park on Sunday at noon.
Hamburgers and hot dogs will be served and a host of activities and games - swimming, volleyball and basketball - will be played throughout the afternoon.
Tickets for a July 29 raffle will be sold at the picnic for $5. Raffle items include a John Deere lawn mower, a Sony portable stereo, a Hewlett-Packard Business Analyzer II calculator and printer, dinner at the Hedge House and more.
Picnic tickets are $3 per person or $10 per family. Habitat House T-shirts will sold for $15.
For picnic tickets, call Steve Swenson at 455-9379.
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