April 12 – From Silence to Solidarity

By Barbara Casaly, February 27, 2026

10:30 AM [No Zoom option]

Moving from Private Grief to Shared Hope, through Love, Healing & Action

Led by our special guest speaker for our April Faith in Action partner

Join Chaplain Clementina Chéry, President & CEO of the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute, on a transformative journey from personal grief to collective healing. This sermon invites participants to engage all the senses—sight, sound, touch, smell, taste, and imagination—while exploring the principles of love, community, and action. Through storytelling, reflection, and sensory practices, we will discover how grief can be honored, healing can be nurtured, and shared experiences of trauma can become sources of hope, connection, and meaningful change.

BIO:  Chaplain Clementina Chéry is the President and CEO of the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, an organization she founded in 1994 after the murder of her 15-year-old son Louis. Through the Institute, she leads efforts to support families affected by homicide, trauma, grief and loss. Her work centers on creating compassionate, trauma informed resources for survivors and transforming societal responses to violence, and she is the author of many publications.

Her leadership has earned her numerous awards, including the Clara Barton Humanitarian award and the Lady of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, bestowed by Pope John Paul II. Chaplain Chéry’s legacy is preserved at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University, where her contributions are honored as part of an effort to highlight remarkable women in history.

Chaplain Chéry holds multiple honorary degrees in recognition of her leadership and contributions to society: honorary Doctorate Degrees from Regis College, and Mount Ida College as well as an Honorary Doctorate of Ministry from College of the Holy Cross.