Before the thousands of devotees gathered for a general audience in Paul VI’s hall, the Pope raised no objection. Ukrainebut he said an exciting prayer written by Mimmo Battaglia, Archbishop of Naples.
“Lord Jesus, born under the bombs of Kiev, have mercy on us! Lord Jesus, who died in his mother’s arms in a shelter in Kharkov, have mercy on us! Lord Jesus sent twenty years to the front, have mercy on us! Lord Jesus, who still sees armed hands in the shadow of your cross, have mercy on us!” Francis prayed for the funeral silence of the auditorium.
And the prayer continued: “Forgive us, O Lord, if we do not agree with the nails that we have pierced in your hands, we will continue to drink the blood of the dead, torn by weapons. Forgive us to break these hands.” protect that you have made. became instruments of the dead”.
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“Forgive us, Lord, if we continue to kill our brother, as Cain removed stones from our field to kill Abel. Before concluding his words, the Pope prayed, “Son of God, Lord Jesus Christ, we beseech you! Hold back Cain’s hand!”
Before detaining audiences, the Pope also filmed children fleeing bombs and going “hiding” in Ukraine, saying they were “victims of adult arrogance” and meeting a group of Italian students for a general public.
“And now I want you to think, think: think of the many children, boys, girls, who are at war in Ukraine today, who are affected by this situation. They’re like you, they’re like you, they’re 6, 7, 10, 14 years old. old…”, in the Basilica of San Pedro, greeting the former students of the La Zolla School in Milan.
You have a future ahead of you, growing up in a peaceful society, on the other hand, these little ones need to escape the bombs, they adapt to the cold weather,” he said.
Source: Ulti Mahora
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