Peace Sunday 2026 – Peace be with you all: Towards an “unarmed and disarming” peace
This form time resource introduces Peace Sunday and Pope Leo’s message for the World Day of Peace 2026. The resource explores hope and how to build peace. There are links to further resources and activity ideas towards the end of the PowerPoint.
Catholic Nonviolence Days of Action 2025
This short form time resource explores the theme of this year’s Catholic Nonviolence Days of Action- ‘Building Bridges for a Nonviolent Tomorrow’.
There are two versions of the resource available depending on what level would be most appropriate for the young people you work with. Links to further information and resources are given at the end.
Peace Sunday 2025 – Forgive us our trespasses: grant us your peace
This form time resource explores the theme of this year’s World Day of Peace message from Pope Francis. The message focusses on forgiveness, hope and peace. There are suggestions for further activities at the end of the resource.
Peace Sunday 2025 Form time resource
Catholic Nonviolence Days of Action 2024
This assembly/ form time resource explores the themes of the UN International Day of Peace and the Catholic Nonviolence Days of Action 2024.
The theme of the UN International Day of Peace on 21st September is ‘Cultivating a Culture of Peace’ and the theme of the Catholic Nonviolence Days of Action from 21st September to 2nd October is ‘Walking Together Builds Unity and Nonviolence’.
UN International Day of Peace and the Catholic Nonviolence Days of Action 2024
Peace Sunday 2024- Artificial Intelligence and Peace
This assembly/ form time resource explores the theme of the Pope’s message for the World Day of Peace 2024 on Artificial Intelligence and peace. There are ideas for further activities at the end.
Peace Sunday 2024 Form Time Resource
Catholic Nonviolence Days of Action 2023
This assembly/ form time resource introduces the Catholic Nonviolence Days of Action 2023. The theme this year is “Blessed are the feet of those who bring nonviolence”. The final slide has links to further resources and ideas.
Catholic Nonviolence Days of Action 2023
Pope’s Prayer Intention April 2023
In April the Pope’s prayer intention is for ‘a non-violent culture’. This resource encourages reflection and a deeper understanding of nonviolence alongside the Pope’s intention.
Pope’s Prayer Intention April 2023
Peace Sunday 2023: ‘No one can be saved alone. Combatting Covid-19 together, embarking together on paths of peace’
This resource has been produced for Peace Sunday 2023 and explores Pope Francis’ message for the World Day of Peace. This PowerPoint can be used as an assembly or in form time and there are also ideas for further activities.
Catholic Nonviolence Days of Action 2022
This assembly/ form time resource has been developed to celebrate the Catholic Nonviolence Days of Action 2022. The resource explores nonviolence and how we might practise it in our day-to-day lives. The final slide has links to further resources.
Catholic Nonviolence Days of Action 2022
‘Education, work and dialogue between generations: tools for building lasting peace’
This resource has been produced for Peace Sunday 2022 to encourage students to think about how we can work for peace. This PowerPoint can be used as an assembly or in form time, and includes a list of potential follow-up activities on the last two slides.
Pilgrimage for Peace
This assembly has been produced as an introduction to our Pilgrimage for Peace fundraiser.
‘A Culture of Care as a Path to Peace’
These resources have been produced for Peace Sunday 2021 and encourage students to reflect on how caring for each other is an important part of working for peace. The Powerpoint can be used as an assembly or discussion activity and the worksheet enables students to reflect on the message individually.
Catholic Nonviolence Days of Action
This resource celebrates the Catholic Nonviolence Days of Action and explores nonviolence through a series of discussion and reflection activities that can be part of a form time, class discussion or assembly.
Catholic Nonviolence Days of Action schools resource
‘Peace as a Journey of Hope: Dialogue, Reconciliation and Ecological Conversion’
This resource is designed to encourage conversation and reflection around some of the key themes of the Pope’s Peace Message 2020- fear, dialogue, security, peace, reconciliation and ecological conversion.
Notes for Peace Sunday resource 2020
Good politics serves peace
This assembly has been produced for World Peace Day 2019 and reflects upon Pope Francis’ message that “good politics serves peace” and how we are all called to work for peace.
Script for Peace Sunday assembly 2019 (pdf)
Slideshow for Peace Sunday assembly 2019 (pptx)
Blessed Josef Mayr-Nusser – Martyr for Conscience
Sentenced to death because of his faith when his conscience would not allow him to make an oath of loyalty to Hitler, Josef Mayr-Nusser died on 24 February 1945 in a cattle wagon on the way to Dachau concentration camp where he was to be shot. He was beatified by Pope Francis on 18 March 2017.
This assembly celebrates the life of Bl. Josef and the lessons we can learn from his courageous witness.
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Dorothy Day: Saint or Troublemaker?
On his 2016 visit to the United States Pope Francis, addressing Congress, praised an American lay-woman, Dorothy Day, for her social activism and her passion for justice.
Dorothy Day was a prayerful woman, a faithful Catholic, and a woman devoted to the poorest in society. She was also unafraid to court controversy: an outspoken critic of governments and their wars she spent time in prison for her activism.
In this assembly we meet Dorothy Day: Saint and Troublemaker.
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Overcome Indifference and Win Peace
Reflecting on the Pope’s theme for World Peace Day 2016, this assembly recalls the actions of a group of women who refused to be indifferent to the suffering of their brothers and sisters around the world.
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Other Resources
Film: SEEDS OF HOPE – Women Disarming for Life and Justice
Film: Ploughshares: How to destroy a warplane with a Hammer
Peace People – The Seeds of Hope Ploughshares (pdf)
Women Peacemakers
In 1915, in the midst of World War I, women from around the world gathered in the Hague for the International Congress of Women. This assembly reflects on the story of the women peacemakers who assembled in The Hague a century ago, reflects on their efforts to bring an end to the carnage of the First World War, and invites students to think about how they can work for peace today.
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No longer slaves, but brothers and sisters
Produced for World Peace Day 2015 this assembly reflects on this theme and invites students to think about how they can live in solidarity with their brothers and sisters around the world.
Peace Day 2015 Assembly Script (pdf)
Peace Day 2015 Assembly Slideshow (pptx)
