Let us continue to pray and act for peace!

Let us continue to pray and act for peace!

By Fr. Bernard Holzer, aa

 

Last Sunday after praying the Angelus in Rome, Pope Francis, once more, asked to pray for peace:

“Let us continue to pray for peace in Ukraine and in the entire world. I appeal to the heads of nations and international organizations to react to the tendency to accentuate conflict and confrontation. The world needs peace. Not a peace based on the balance of weapons, on mutual fear…

With God’s help, this is always possible! But it is necessary to pass from the strategies of political, economic and military power to a plan for global peace: no to a world divided between conflicting powers; yes to a world united between peoples and civilizations that respect each other.”

As the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrives in the Philippines, let us pray for peace.

Each of us can be a peace builder! In our family, our neighborhood, let us pray:

“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:

where there is hatred, let me sow love;

where there is injury, pardon;

where there is doubt, faith;

where there is despair, hope;

where there is darkness, light;

where there is sadness, joy.

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek

to be consoled as to console,

to be understood as to understand,

to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive,

it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,

and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”

- Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

 

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