Pax Romana Annual Conference

19th ANNUAL CONFERENCE

2006 September 9, at Webster Falls
theme

THE MANY FACES OF LOVE
“That ye love one another; as I have loved you”
We are waiting for you!

Thought stimulation - hints for those who decide to write a paper, to be co-organizer or to be patron

First the mankind have to have experience about the love and after God state that the love give the value of our actions. Jesus taught on behalf of the love implied in the relationship and asked to love each other. In the love-relationship we become to know confidently the other secrets. The rejected love have to have renewed in suffering to remain love. This is the drama of the self-surpass of the love-dialogue. The love call upon a mutual love, ask for a free will decision, towards with which nobody can remain neutral. The love call you for a perfect submit because our love will remain for the eternity too.

It's developing degrees:
- to get love from everybody
- to get directed love
- to give directed love
- to give love for everybody

Questions and arguable sentences, or propose new ones:

- Love of our neighbour, love of God, love of our country, friends, children, parents, husbands and wives, love of our enemies, loving my favourite food, self- love, platonic love... What is common in these that we are using the same word?

- What is love? Inclination? Feeling? Virtue? Psychological phenomenon? Chemical reactions, hormonal interactions? Or something else?

- Is love a question of will, or feeling?

- Is love a sickness? To where we “fall” in, and “healed”?

- The Greek language uses four different words for love. Does this have any meaning, or is it an unnecessary hair-splitting?

- Must love always build, or sometimes destroy too?

- Can we be silent about truth out of love? In case of terminal illness, etc.

- What about those who are unable to experience love? Mentally challenged, etc.

- Is love necessary for our lives?

- If we can reach to love without condition as Jesus love us, whether do we need other's love?

- The people around us should recognize us from our love. How successful are we in this respect?

- Is it possible to practice the love of our enemies in our daily lives? How can anyone love Stalin or Hitler?

- Also other religions regard love highly. Do they speak about the same thing? For example, is the Buddhist compassion (karuna) and the Christian concept of love the same?

- What can we see when we compare the Old and the New Testament? The Old Testament is sometimes related to Law, while the New Testament to Love. Do we still then need the Old Testament? What is the relationship between love, Law, fear and respect?

- Pope Benedict's first encyclical speaks about love. Why now, and what is it about?

- Saint Paul's hymn to love is a classic text and every second wedding invitation quotes from it. It's practice is somehow less successful, if we consider the high divorce rates. What could be the reason for this?

- How can we reconcile our belief in a loving God with the existence of evil (wars, earthquakes, tidal waves, everlasting hell, etc.)? Some people think God is not only loving, but also just. Others find this answer unsatisfactory.

- Is Christian love necessary to practice humanitarian love? Many charity agencies work around us and with quite a success.

- The dark side of love: possessing love, love taking advantages of the weak, selfish love, abusing love, the love of power, sin, violence, gossip.

- What is the difference between heterosexual and homosexual love?

- Are animals able to love? Or is it exclusively a human privilege?

Invitation

If you are interested in these exciting questions, then we are inviting you to a thought-provoking, amusing and eventful weekend. For everybody, who feels spiritually fresh and young, there will be our magnificent lecturers and the friendly milieu!

Program	Plenary Speakers	Organizers

- Lectures from 9 am - Lunch, 12-1 pm - Discussions - Walk in the Park - Picnic		Presenter: Chef: Baby-sitter: Directors:	Gáspár, Julius and Szilvássy, Gábor

Registration and more Information - hints for prepare yourself

Registration fee:	free, but we ask pre registration.	Information service: Gáspár, Julius tel: 416-651-2764 or Szilvássy, Gábor tel: 416-255-5065
Information:	More Information - on E-mail or telephone - in the evenings by the organizers.
Donations:	Our expenses are covered by donations what is give able to us at St Elizabeth of Hungary Parish or posted to our address.	Address: St. Elizabeth of Hungary Parish Pax Romana Movement 432 Sheppard Ave. East Toronto, Ont. M2N 3B7 Tel: 1 (416) 225-3300 Fax: 1 (416) 225-3814

General Information

Conference:	Every year we organize an annual conference and to lecture we invite professors or experts. Our conference widens our friends, and we feel that it's success requires optimal focus and respect towards each other's opinions.
Preparations:	The participant, as preparation, is asked to read those articles which will only be published in written form and will be seen on our web site before our Conference. These will be discussed too after the delivered lectures. The other articles of our conferences are readable too.
Boarding:	We offer a Hungarian stew for the participants, but for more needs self-sufficient or a restaurant is available in the park.
Dressing:	Leisure wear. We will be in the open air in hole day or under a mushroom roof in case of raining weather.
Travelling:	Individually, but we organize transportation for those who don't have a car. Parking place is signed on the map. Those persons who come by car, please sign forward, how many persons could bring with you.
Free time:	Available in the parks of the falls.
Rules:	The organizers ask: - respect towards each other's opinions, - keep the time of the program. The organizers thanking in advance.

Location

Address:	Webster Falls
Route:	1: Toronto - QEW - 403 - Hamilton - 8 - Dundas: King St W - Brock Rd to North, 2: Toronto - QEW - 403 - 6 to Guelph - 5 to West (Dundas St) - Brock Rd to South, 3: Toronto - 401 - 6 to Hamilton - Freelton: Freelton Rd - Brock Rd to South, From Brock Rd: Harvest Rd - Short Rd - Fallsview Rd - to red triangle
Time:	9 am, September 9, 2006.

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