VATICAN CITY (ITALPRESS) – Pope Leo XIV went to the church of St. Peter’s Basilica before the beginning of the recitation of the Rosary to invoke the gift of peace. The Pontiff thanked the faithful in St. Peter’s Square “for wanting to respond to this call, to this invitation to join us all with our voice, with our hearts, with our life to pray for peace. Peace we all have in our hearts, that peace reigns throughout the world.”.
“God listens to us, God accompanies us, Jesus told us that, where two or three are gathered in his name, he is present. In these days of the eighth of Easter we believe deeply in the presence of the risen Jesus among us – Pope Leo XIV emphasized. Now, united in the prayer of the holy rosary, asking for the intercession of our mother Mary, we want to tell the whole world that it is possible to build peace, a new peace, that it is possible to live together with all the peoples of all religions and all races, that we want to be disciples of Jesus Christ united as brothers and sisters. United all in a world of peace.”.
LA PREGHIERA DEL SANTO ROSARIO IN BASILICA
“War divides, hope unites. The treacherous bully, love raises. The idolatry blinds, the living God illuminates. Just a little faith, a crumb of faith to face together, as humanity and with humanity, this dramatic hour of history. Let’s look up then. Let’s get up from the rubble. Nothing can close us in a destiny already written, not even in this world in which the tombs seem not enough, because it continues to crucify, to annihilate life, without right and without mercy”. Pope Leo said this in the prayer of the Holy Rosary in the Basilica of St. Peter. “St. John Paul II, untiring witness of peace, with emotion said in the context of the Iraqi crisis in 2003: I belong to that generation that lived the Second World War and survived. I have the duty to tell all young people, to the younger ones of me, who have not had this experience: Never again the war!, as Paul VI said in his first visit to the United Nations. We have to do everything we can. We know that peace is not possible at all costs. But we all know how great this responsibility is. I make my call this evening, so current.”.
“The balances in the human family are severely destabilized. Even the holy name of God, the God of life, is dragged into death speeches. Brothers and sisters, those who pray are aware of their limitations, do not kill and do not threaten death. On the contrary, on death is besieged who turned his back on the living God, to make of himself and his own power the dumb, blind and deaf idol, to sacrifice all value and claim that the whole world bends the knee”
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