A study of The Risk of the Cross prepares a group of us to witness against the U.S. refusal to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Like in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, through a series of exercises we immerse ourselves in the biblical narrative. We access the dangerous memory of the nonviolent campaign of Jesus as a source of mission and ministry. The principal and foundation is our awareness of the profound yes we make to God. The graces of this contemplative period in focus on the principal and foundation is a matter of further accepting our baptismal assent to God and a designation of ourselves in the purpose of God's providence. The purpose of our acting in nonviolence, as the tip of the spear, is a further conclusion reaching to grasp this insight of our Creator's grace filled act of creation.  It is knowing ourselves in this way that we are ready for the first week. In this period of contemplating the structural sin, of course it is a medi...