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selby4
Jun 25
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I apologize for the delay in publishing May and June issues of Ascend. The fact is that the actual work of Mary's Ward is superseding the creative description of that work. The situation will be remedied soon! Thanks for your patience!

 
 
 

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ABOUT US

Mary's Ward is a community of activists, living together and apart, in cities and enclaves, working to further nonviolent social and spiritual evolution to hasten God's kingdom of heaven on earth.  The vision of human unity elucidated by:

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Jesus and Mary

Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin

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is our paradigm.  Non-dogmatic Catholic Christianity, the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, the Vedic vision, and strategic nonviolent resistance are among our means.  Mutual aid, corporal and spiritual works of mercy, alternative social institutions, urban and rural farming and gardening, and tactical frivolity are our tools.  Education, agriculture, and the arts are our fields of action.

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Please join the Mother's Beads project!

  • Beatitude (mutual aid)

  • Education (free progress)

  • ​Arts (speak your truth)

  • Divinity (find your soul)

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Create a bead!  Be a bead! Join with other beads strung along the Divine thread!

Diversity of beads is most welcome!

Mary's Ward is a community of activists, living together and apart, in cities and enclaves, working to further nonviolent social and spiritual evolution to hasten God's kingdom of heaven on earth.  The vision of human unity elucidated by:

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Jesus and Mary

Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin

Fr. Gregory Boyle, SJ & Homeboy Industries

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is our paradigm.  Non-dogmatic Catholic Christianity, the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, the Vedic vision, and strategic nonviolent resistance are among our means.  Mutual aid, corporal and spiritual works of mercy, alternative social institutions, urban and rural farming and gardening, and tactical frivolity are among our tools.  Education, agriculture, and the arts are our fields of action.

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CONTACT

(207) 894-4153

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Gorham, ME, USA

Lowell, ME, USA

Springfield, ME, USA

 

selby@marysward.com

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