Immaculate Conception, the Pope: his prayer to the Immaculate Conception, may peace win the war
act of venerationImmaculatein Piazza di Spagna for Dad Francis. In the previous two years, this gesture of prayer had taken place alone, not in the presence of the public due to the pandemic. The Pontiff is moved as he pleads for peace in Ukraine: “May love win over hatred, may truth win over lies, may forgiveness win over offense, may peace win over war”. To the Immaculate she brings the many “silent, sometimes suffocated, hidden” pleas of everyone, not just Christians. Francis prays for the children, the elderly, the families who cannot go on until the end of the month. But he also prays for young people “held back by a culture rich in things and poor in values”, “saturated with information”, “persuasive in deceiving and ruthless in disappointing”. He begs the Virgin to help them so that they spread their wings after the two years of the pandemic to rediscover the pleasure of “flying high”.
Below is the entire prayer specially composed by Pope Francis, and recited by him during the Act of veneration
“Our Immaculate Mother, today the Roman people gather around you. The flowers placed at your feet by many citizens of the city express love and devotion for you, who watch over us all. And you see and welcome those flowers too invisible which are so many invocations, so many silent supplications, sometimes suffocated, hidden but not for you, who are a Mother.After two years in which I came alone to pay homage at daybreak, today I return to you together with the people of this Church and of this City. And I bring you the thanks and supplications of all your children, near and far. You, from Heaven in which God has welcomed you, see the things of the earth much better than we do; but as a Mother you listen our invocations to present them to your Son, to his Heart full of mercy.First of all I bring you the filial love of countless men and women, not only Christians, who nourish for you the greatest gratitude for your beauty all grace and humility: because in the midst of tan dark clouds you are a sign of hope and consolation. I bring you the smiles of children, who learn your name in front of your image, in the arms of their mothers and grandmothers, and who begin to know that they also have a Mother in Heaven. And when, in life, it happens that those smiles give way to tears, how important it is to have known you, to have had your motherhood as a gift!”.
“I bring you the gratitude of the elderly and the old: a thank you that is all one with their life, a fabric of memories, of joys and sorrows, of goals that they know well they have achieved with your help, holding their hand in yours. I bring you the concerns of families, fathers and mothers who often struggle to make ends meet at home, and face small and big challenges day by day to move forward. In particular, I entrust young couples to you, because looking to you and to St. Joseph, may they courageously go towards life trusting in God’s Providence. I bring you the dreams and anxieties of young people, open to the future but held back by a culture full of things and poor in values, saturated with information and lacking in “educate, persuasive in deceiving and ruthless in disappointing. I especially recommend to you the kids who have been most affected by the pandemic, so that they may slowly resume shaking and spreading their wings and rediscover the pleasure of flying high. Virgo Im macolata, today I would have liked to bring you the thanksgiving of the Ukrainian people for the peace that we have been asking the Lord for a long time. Instead I still have to present to you the plea of the children, of the elderly, of the fathers and mothers, of the young people of that tortured land. But in reality we all know that you are with them and with all the suffering, just as you were at the cross of your Son. Thank you, our Mother! Looking to you, who are without sin, we can continue to believe and hope that love wins over hatred, truth wins over lies, forgiveness wins over offense, peace wins over war. So be it!”.
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