Pope Francis asked the faithful around the world this Wednesday to pray during the month of October “against the madness of war”at the end of the general audience held in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican.
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“I urge you all to pray the Rosary every dayconfidently abandoning you in the hands of Mary,” to whom “we entrust the suffering and desire for peace of the peoples who suffer the madness of war, especially the tormented Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, Myanmar, Sudan,” the pope said.
Francis assured, at the end of the audience and during the greetings in several languages to the thousands of faithful of various languages present in the square, that “the month of October, dedicated to the Holy Rosary, is aa precious occasion to enhance this traditional Marian prayer”.
‘We all want unity’
And he added: Let “Mary lead you to her son Jesus, now pray together for peace in the world and for the unity of the Church”, to which he had already referred during the audience.
“The unity of the Church is the unity between people and it is not achieved at the table, but in life,” he said.
“We all want unity, we all want it from the depths of our hearts; however, it is so difficult to achieve that, even within marriage and family, unity and harmony are the things harder to achieve and even harder to maintain,” he explained.
This is because “each person wants, yes, unity to be created, but around his own point of view, without thinking that the other person in front of him thinks exactly the same about ‘his’ point of view,” he said, before adding: “The unity of Christians is also built like this: not waiting for others to join us where we are, but moving together towards Christ”.
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