Los Gatos Weekly-Times

Sisters of Holy Names will plant a Peace Pole

Summer Days Gathering

As part of its Road to Summer Days 1998 provincial gathering, which runs from July 30 to Aug. 2, the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary are dedicating an International Peace Pole. The public is welcome to attend the ceremony, which takes place across from the Provincial Administration building on the convent grounds in Los Gatos.

On Aug. 2, following a 10 a.m. liturgy, the sisters will "plant," dedicate and bless the Peace Pole, a wooden structure handcrafted in the United States and covered with plates that read "May Peace Prevail on Earth" in a variety of languages. The sisters' pole is a hexagon covered with the motto in American Sign Language, Braille, English, French, Hebrew, Haitian Creole, Japanese, leaf prints, Lesotho, Ohlone, paw prints, Portuguese and Spanish.

The Peace Pole Project began in Japan by The World Peace Prayer Society, a nonprofit, nondenominational organization founded in 1955. Today, there are more than 100,000 poles in 160 countries around the world, planted in or around forests, cities, town squares, hospitals, houses of worship, restaurants, offices and private homes.

For more information or directions to the convent, call 395-0259.

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