The Marblehead Ministerial Association, along with several other groups, is holding an interfaith prayer vigil on Sunday, 3 p.m., at Star of the Sea Church, amid the violence in Israel and Gaza.
“The goal is to give some room for lament and grief and truth-telling and to use the tools of our traditions to transform those things from a place of hopeless to a place where we might begin to see the seeds of pece and what a just peace would look like… and also to just gather and show one another that in spite of all the calls for division we are actually as a community, one,” said Rev. Jim Bixby of the Clifton Lutheran Church and Marblehead Racial Justice Team.
Bixby continued: “Most people on planet earth want the same things and they don’t want hate, they don’t want murder. They want to see the mutual flourishing of their fellow human beings.”
Read about a Marblehead man who escaped Israel during the attacks.
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