Dear Confreres,
dear sisters and brothers,
Today 1st of September, Pope Francis has made a very strong appeal, from deep in his heart, for
peace in the world and especially in Syria. He has declared next
Saturday 7th September as a day of prayer and fasting for Peace in the
World and asks all the
dioceses of the world to organize also some kind of liturgical prayer
for this. I think that our charism and fourth vow of obedience to the
Pope come very much into play in this.
Try to participate in whatever your local bishop organizes or asks you to organize in your parish or community.
Let
us organize in all our communities a generous response to this appeal
which the Pope makes first to us Catholics and then to all Christians,
believers of all other regions and all men and women of good will.
Our
community at Zarqa in Jordan should be a symbol of this response since
there we have a shrine dedicated to Our Lady Queen of Peace, whom Pope
Francis is inviting us to pray to, in these days of violence and war in
various parts of the world but especially in Syria.
Our Lady, Queen of Peace, pray for us!
Fr Malcolm
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