Faith Beacons
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P.E.A.C.E. II — The Charge to a Faith Beacon
Faith Beacons are faith-community leaders who give spiritual and moral witness to Give 100. Across the 100 days, they are invited to embody P.E.A.C.E. II — offering public expression to prayer, light, advocacy, gathering, and invitation as a living testimony of faith in service of duty and peace.
On Faith and Witness
Faith stood beside duty and service as one of the three great anchors of Queen Elizabeth II’s life. A public devotion to duty sustained over seventy years is difficult to understand apart from the faith she so often acknowledged. As Defender of the Faith, she bore a title rooted in Christian history; through her Christmas messages, Royal Maundy observances, repeated hosting of Anglican bishops at the Lambeth Conferences, and lifelong Christian witness, she gave public expression to a faith that shaped both her service and her vocation under the Crown. Yet the faith she professed did not narrow her regard. As Head of the Commonwealth, she recognised the dignity and contribution of other faiths, and became for many beyond her own tradition a figure of steadiness, reverence, and service. For that reason, Give 100 gives faith communities a defined place in its architecture: not to make the observance sectarian, but to honour one of the deepest sources of the Queen’s public life by turning faith once again toward service.
The Charge
P.E.A.C.E. II is the charge given to a Faith Beacon — five expressions of witness through which a faith-community leader may give spiritual and moral form to the Give 100 observance across the 100 days. Each Faith Beacon is invited to discern, in keeping with their tradition and community, what they are able to offer.
Pray
A Faith Beacon is invited to pray — giving thanks for the life of Queen Elizabeth II, and interceding for the success of the Give 100 observance and the emergence of preemptology as a recognised discipline for preventive healthcare. Prayer is the first witness: it orients the work toward something beyond the merely civic.
Enkindle
A Faith Beacon is invited to enkindle the observance — lighting the Commonweal Candle within their faith community on Day 0 (13 June) and again on Day 100 (21 September), the International Day of Peace. This act of enkindling is symbolic: a flame held up in honour of the Queen’s centenary and in witness to peace.
Advocate
A Faith Beacon is invited to advocate — lending their voice and standing to preemptology and the Institute of Preemptology (IoP) through speech and writing during the 100 days. Advocacy is a form of public witness: it brings the moral authority of faith to bear on the case for prevention.
Convene
A Faith Beacon is invited to convene — to gather 100 persons at least once during the 100 days for prayer, reflection, and support of the IoP. The Century gathering carries the tradition of communal assembly into the Give 100 observance, ideally on the International Day of Peace alongside the Toronto Founding.
Enlist
A Faith Beacon is invited to enlist — nominating one male, one female, and one youth from their community as LAMPs to represent their city at the Toronto Founding. To enlist is to extend the Faith Beacon’s witness outward, drawing others into the wider fellowship of Give 100.
By these five expressions — to Pray, Enkindle, Advocate, Convene, and Enlist — Faith Beacons give form to P.E.A.C.E. II across the Commonwealth, and through it, to the world.
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Faith Beacons are one voice within a wider fellowship of service, duty, and peace.