Pope Francis' Prayer for Peace

Updated : Sun 22 Oct 2023 PM (UTC +1)

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Lord God of peace, hear our plea!

We have tried so many times and for so many years to resolve our conflicts with our forces and also with our weapons; so many moments of hostility and darkness; so much bloodshed; so many broken lives, so many buried hopes... But our efforts have been in vain. Now, Lord, help us! Give us peace, teach us peace, guide us to peace. Open our eyes and our hearts and give us the courage to say: "Never again war"; "With war everything is destroyed! Infuse in us the courage to take concrete action to build peace.

Lord, God of Abraham and the Prophets, God of Love who created us and calls us to live as brothers and sisters, give us the strength to be peacemakers every day; give us the capacity to look with kindness on all the brothers and sisters we meet on our path. Make us available to listen to the cry of our fellow citizens who ask us to transform our weapons into instruments of peace, our fears into trust and our tensions into forgiveness. Keep the flame of hope burning within us so that we may patiently persevere in making choices of dialogue and reconciliation, so that peace may finally prevail. And may the words division, hatred and war be banished from the heart of every man! Lord, disarm the tongue and the hands, renew hearts and minds, so that the word that makes us meet may always be "brother", and the style of our life may become: shalom, peace, salam! Amen.

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