Music and Reflection
Selections from the April 5, 1968 speech entitled “On the Mindless Menace of Violence” by Robert F. Kennedy and excerpts from Thomas Merton’s “The Nonviolent Alternative” with musical interludes.
Readers
Rashaad Abdur-Rahman, Racial Healing Project
Markus Winkler, President, Louisville Metro Council
Sarah Kelley, Director of Communications, Center for Interfaith Relations
Musicians
Dr. Daniel Blosser, Director of Music, Christ Church United Methodist
Ben Sollee, cellist and composer
Program
Organ Processional
“Fughetta in D Major” by Antonin Dvorak
Dr. Philip Brisson
Invocation and Greetings
Archbishop Shelton Fabre
Turney Berry, Chair, Center for Interfaith Relations Board of Directors
Remarks
Mayor Craig Greenberg
Dr. Jason Smith
Chief Medical Officer, UofL Health
Prayer for Peace
Prayer for Peace by Thomas Merton
Kim Schatzel, President, University of Louisville
Grant us prudence in proportion to our power,
Wisdom in proportion to our science,
Humaneness in proportion to our wealth and might.
And bless our earnest will to help all races and peoples to travel, in friendship with us,
Along the road to liberty, justice, and lasting peace;
But grant us above all to see that our ways are not necessarily your ways,
That we cannot truly penetrate the mystery of your designs
And that the very storm of power now raging on this earth
Reveals your hidden will and inscrutable decision.
Grant us to see your face in the lightning of this cosmic storm,
O God of holiness, merciful to men:
Grant us to seek peace where it is truly found.
Music
Pat Mathison
Remarks
Bishop Terry White
Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky
Rabbi Ben Freed
Keneseth Israel Congregation
Music
Ben Sollee
Remarks
Dr. Ted Smith
Envirome Institute
Rev. David Snardon
Joshua Tabernacle Baptist Church
Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel
Interim Chief, Louisville Metro Police
Closing Remarks
Owsley Brown, III
Center for Interfaith Relations Board of Directors
Blessing
Archbishop Shelton Fabre
Organ Recessional
“Pavilioned in Splendor” by Richard Lloyd
Dr. Philip Brisson
Interfaith Representatives
Bishop Terry White, Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky
Geshe Kalsang Rapgyal, Drepung Gomang Center For Engaging Compassion
Johnny Alse, Hindu Temple of Kentucky
Rabbi Ben Freed, Keneseth Israel Congregation
Rev. David Snardon, Joshua Tabernacle Baptist Church
Thich Hang Dat, Blessed Buddha Temple