Pope Francis is urgently
seeking your help.
He is asking all Christians, believers of every
faith and all people of good will to join him Saturday in a vigil of prayer,
penance and fasting for peace in Syria and throughout the world.
Saturday is the vigil of the Feast of the
Nativity of Our Lady, who is the Queen of Peace.
The pope put out the call at last Sunday's
Angelus address and renewed his appeal again on Wednesday.
Here is your personal invitation from Pope
Francis:
"This coming Saturday we will live together a special day of fasting and prayer for peace in Syria, the Middle East, and throughout the world. I renew the invitation to the whole Church to live this day intensely, and even now I express gratitude to the other Christian brethren, to the brethren of other religions and to the men and women of good will who desire to join in this initiative, in places and ways of their own. I especially urge the Roman faithful and pilgrims to participate in the prayer vigil here in St. Peter's Square at 19.00, in order to ask the Lord for the great gift of peace. May a powerful cry for peace go up from every land!"
You can be an instrument of peace -- and a powerful one -- when you unite your cry to the Almighty with those of a multitude from around the world. Our Lady, Queen of Peace, intercede for us!
Inspired
by this Year of Faith we will be posting columns like this from Susan
Szalewski about exploring and/or deepening our faith. Watch for it on
Thursdays and see the Year of Faith Blog here.
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