Father Mike Schmitz on Charlie Kirk’s Death: Don’t Let Anger Harden Your Heart| National Catholic Register

Father Mike Schmitz on Charlie Kirk’s Death: Don’t Let Anger Harden Your Heart| National Catholic Register: “Is it a fool’s errand to try and make sense of something like this?” Megyn Kelly asked the Catholic priest.

Charlie Kirk Saw Britain’s Decline — and Signs of Change Ahead| National Catholic Register

Charlie Kirk Saw Britain’s Decline — and Signs of Change Ahead| National Catholic Register: COMMENTARY: At Oxford and Cambridge, Kirk confronted secular dogmas and protests, yet beyond the elite halls he sensed a people impatient for change.

Saying ‘Political Violence Is Wrong’ Doesn’t Go Far Enough - Ben Shapiro

As a side to this, the Radical Woke Left Black Lives Matter and Antifa left the US in a state of unimaginable chaos following the death of George Floyd in 2020, https://www.foxnews.com/us/george-floyd-protests-aftermath with weeks of rioting, looting, fires, destruction ( 2 billion dollars)  killings, destroyed businesses and it was seemingly generally condoned: what??? I mean even here in Ottawa  a Catholic High School raised money for BLM as a so-called humanitarian project. There was a photo on their website with all the girls bending their knees. Are you kidding me????It's like a different Universe how these radical anti God Marxists get away with the most egregious behaviour. This is how the Left solves its problems: with unimagineable violence and destruction. I don't recall any flames of hatred directed at George Floyd and his supporters in the way we are seeing with Charlie's murder. Are people so blinded that they can't see what is going on? The evil is so thick it you can feel it. This is what brain-washing does. the contrast between the reaction to the death of Charlie Kirk a good peaceful humble Christian - and George Floyd a thug, drug addicted criminal couldn't be any more telling. This is what happens when you have self-serving idiots in the mainstream Media, the Democratic Party and Universities making up the rules. I think they are all possessed

Saying ‘Political Violence Is Wrong’ Doesn’t Go Far Enough

Nobody believes Charlie Kirk was murdered because of his stance on energy policy.
By Ben Shapiro•
Sep 12, 2025 DailyWire.com

When people say “political violence is wrong,” does that change the underlying substructure of thought that leads to a massive elevation in violence in the country of the political variety?
I don’t think it means anything to just say that political violence is wrong, because there are actual substrates of thought that lead to the elevation of the violence that compel fringe actors to go out and do things like murder Charlie Kirk.

Thus, having our politicians simply go out there and say, “We’ve got to take down the temperature; we all have to use better language,” is absolutely true, but it isn’t specific enough.

Chuck Schumer said, “The bottom line is this is a time that all Americans should come together and feel and mourn what happened. Violence, which affects so many different people of so many different political persuasions, is an affliction of America, and coming together is what we ought to be doing, not pointing fingers of blame.”

Hakeem Jeffries said, “This moment requires leadership that brings the American people together, as opposed to trying to further divide us. Political violence in any form against any American is unacceptable, and should be denounced by everyone. And moving forward, we have to figure out a better way to come together, not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans.”

All of this is correct.

But all of this is incredibly vague.

I want to talk about something that we all know is true, but nobody seems to want to say: Not all ideologies are equally prone to violence.

When there is a shooting, a mass shooting at a synagogue, a mass shooting at a church, when Charlie Kirk is shot, everybody’s mind immediately goes to this: What are the likeliest probabilities in terms of who did the shooting?

Everyone does this. We cannot pretend that we are blind to the realities of the world. When there is a shooting at a synagogue, I can tell you my mind goes to two places: radical Muslim or white supremacist. Those are usually the options. If there’s a shooting at a church, your mind might go to a trans radical or a radical Muslim.

That’s where your mind is going to go. And this is leaving aside people who are generally mentally ill or where there’s no political ideology involved. If there is a political ideology involved, your mind immediately goes to the movements that are likely to drive people toward murder.

Not every ideology is prone to this. No one thought that when Charlie Kirk was shot, it was because of his stance on low taxes. No one thought that. We differ on all sorts of politics in this country. Nobody thought that a debate about marginal tax rates was why Charlie was shot. Nobody believes Charlie Kirk was murdered because of his stance on energy policy.
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In order for an ideology, for a movement to coalesce in such a way that it allows for violence — the sort of bubbling of violence that lies at the outskirts of a movement — there have to be some preconditions.

I’ve been talking a lot about lions and scavengers. What we are seeing here is the scavengers at work.

The basic philosophy of the scavenger is very simple: All models and civilizations are merely guises for power. My failure is a result of one of those corrupt power systems. There’s a great conspiracy out there. I am the victim. I’m being targeted. I am the actual victim.

And thus, if there is a great conspiracy that is targeting me for destruction, I must respond in kind with violence.

This is how you get to the idiotic notion that speech is violence.

Those are the three elements: “Morals and civilizations that I don’t like are simply guises for power,” “My failure within that system is a result of that great conspiracy and I am the victim,” and “It is an existential threat to me and therefore I must act out with violence and harm somebody.”

Let me give you three examples, and I’m going to take them from the top death threats I received.

I receive an enormous number of death threats. I have 24/7 security on me, on my family. I literally go nowhere without an entire team of security at this point in my life. And that is because of things like what happened to Charlie.

There are three main wings that I get these threats from: Trans ideology/Marxist ideology, white supremacists, and radical Muslims.

I want to go through each one of those and explain why these particular ideologies, why these particular movements are likely to generate violence.

A trans ideology says that your argument about biology, that there is simply male and female, is, in fact, a guise for power. You’re doing it because you hate me; you wish to erase me. I am a victim of your failure to accept my identity, such that you’re erasing me. You’re engaging in a “trans genocide,” and therefore, you are threatening me. Your speech is a form of violence. It is wiping away my identity.

And therefore violence ought to be met with violence.

Marxist ideology, which is derived from the same general area, is the idea that the governmental system, the free market system, is an imposition on me. It is a conspiracy from above to harm me, to destroy me. My failures inside the market are actually not my own. They’re the fault of the system. And you, as an advocate for the system, are victimizing me. You’re erasing me. You’re destroying me. And I must act with violence. There’s a reason why Marxist movements are so violent. They say that speech, advocacy for the free market, is, in fact, a system of power. It is to be met with violence.

White supremacy: I know that there’s an attempt to pretend that this doesn’t exist, but it absolutely exists in online spaces. Pretending it doesn’t is bulls*** and everyone knows it. I know it because I’ve had to have the FBI arrest somebody who was doing this while threatening not just me, by the way, but Donald Trump Jr.

That ideology says that white people are being put upon in the United States by an entire system. And if you’re an advocate for that system, you are threatening me with destruction, with erasure, with white genocide, and thus you must be killed. Violence is a proper response to an attempted genocide. That is the argument that is made, at root, by many white supremacists.

I’m not talking about what the Left calls white supremacy, which is anything to the right of Hillary Clinton. I’m talking about actual, honest-to-God white supremacists. I get an awful lot of death threats from them.

Group number three, radical Muslims, who believe that the failures of the Palestinians, for example, are the result of evil Western systems. And thus, if you are an advocate for those systems, it’s because you want to erase the radical Muslims and you want to kill people and you want to commit genocide, and therefore it is fine to shoot two Israeli embassy staffers dead in Washington, D.C. That is why it is fine to throw a Molotov cocktail at an 80-year-old woman in Colorado who was protesting Israeli hostages being held.

We all know this is true. Pretending it isn’t true doesn’t make it go away. Not all movements are equally likely to bubble up with violence.

And so when we have politicians saying political violence is bad, if you’re not speaking out against the movements that use this logic, if you’re not speaking out against the movements that say that speech is in fact a form of violence, that systems are in fact a form of violence, and that violence is the proper response to that, then you are contributing to the environment in which this kind of stuff happens.

It is not that there are many radical Muslims in the United States, by the numbers, thank God.

It’s not that there are many white supremacists in the United States.

But by the numbers, the increasing radicalism of the Left in the United States is, in fact, a massive issue.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) recently did rankings of campus free speech. And what they found is that college campuses are replete with the failure to speak your mind.

Why? Because people are afraid of violence.

It goes all the way back to when I was in college. There’s nothing new here. I wrote my very first book, “Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America’s Youth,” in 2004 about the kind of discrimination conservatives faced on campus. And yes, there was the possibility of violence, even in 2004, not being shot, but the possibility of being physically assaulted, which is something that came close to happening to me multiple times, even when I was an undergrad.

That’s going back 20 years, when I was warning that this was going to metastasize and take over huge swaths of the political Left. People ignored it at the time. But it was true.

I spoke in 2015 at the University of Missouri during the Black Lives Matter upsurge, after Ferguson. And I remember people asking about safety. I said, “I’m not worried about safety. There are some police there; I’ve got a security team now. No one’s going to take a shot at me. This is America. You don’t get shot in America for saying things on a college campus. This is America. I grew up in this country. This is my country. This is a country I love. This is where our fundamental value is the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. No one’s going to do this kind of stuff. No one.”

But it’s becoming more and more common. According to FIRE, a record 1-in-3 students now hold some level of acceptance, even if only rarely, for resorting to violence to stop a campus speech.

Now, I’m sure not everybody who believes they’re using violence thinks in terms of shooting someone to death. But when you are drawing from a pool at this point of legitimately tens of millions of young Americans, who are atomistic and isolated and don’t touch grass, it is not going to be hard to find some unhinged people who decide to take that to its logical conclusion and fire a bullet through the throat of a man who is simply attempting to speak truth to people in the friendliest possible fashion.

I don’t like when people say “They shot Charlie,” because “they” isn’t a person. A person shot Charlie Kirk, and he shot Charlie Kirk for a deranged reason.

With that said, there are movements in which the substrate of their political thinking leads to an elevation in violence. Period. End of story. That is a reality.

And it is not enough to just say “political violence is bad” if you are not calling out the movements themselves.

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Charlie Kirk - In Life and in death he belonged to God 😇

Thank you, Charlie Kirk!

I have cried a lot since Charlie was murdered. I have so many feelings: disbelief, anger, sadness.  I love Charlie, I love his family. We are all God's children: (murderers too ) We are all created in His Image. Too many souls are walking around in a psychotic stupor who are desperately in need of help. Still, instead, their illness is embraced and enabled by Anti God Politicians, so many in the Medical Profession, and Mainstream Media. Charlie has inspired so many souls with his humility, eloquence, and Christ's Truth that never changes. Thank you for your humble and faithful example Charlie.

Faith over Fear! Hope over despair! Love over hate!

Bishops Issue Important Statement To Catholic Parents Everywhere

Amy Hamm: Trudeau may be gone, but the gender craziness continues

 https://nationalpost.com/opinion/trudeau-may-be-gone-but-the-gender-craziness-continues

Unlike his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister Mark Carney isn’t known for making flamboyant declarations of allyship to Canada’s 2SLGBTQIA+ community. But don’t be deceived: our national fealty to gender ideology remains the same as it was during the Trudeau years. Canada is no less woke under Carney.

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Some may believe that Trudeau’s departure, coupled with international blows to the excesses of this ideology, marked the end of Canada’s struggle with the more absurd, anti-reality aspects of trans activism. Unfortunately, that is untrue.

Fighting gender ideology in Canada is a war of attrition. And more than ever, those on the front lines need armaments and sustenance.

Remember the case of Jessica Yaniv? The transgender-identifying Yaniv filed numerous human rights complaints against female immigrant estheticians for declining to wax male genitalia. Yaniv lost the cases at the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal (on a technicality) and has largely fallen out of the public’s eye. Until now.

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Yaniv, now going by the name Jessica Simpson, has ongoing litigation against Canada Galaxy Pageants that is crawling its way through the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. Since 2019, Simpson has been seeking damages from the pageant company for refusing to allow Simpson to participate in a beauty pageant

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The pageant is open to girls as young as six and contestants undress together backstage. Canada Galaxy Pageants’ policy rightly prohibits people with intact male genitalia from competing.

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The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) has been representing the company in what it describes as “a human rights case … that (deals) with whether children’s emotional, mental and physical safety should take precedence over a transwoman’s desire to access a female changeroom.”

The JCCF recently asked the tribunal to dismiss the case and expects a decision in the coming weeks.

Elsewhere, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s progressive — in the true sense of the word — legislation to ban “gender-affirming care” for minors has been (at least temporarily) thwarted by a court injunction. As such, an obvious, globally recognized medical scandal carries on, harming additional Canadian youth.

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In National Post this week, Terry Newman detailed how Hockey Canada recently threatened the certification of its members who do not fall in line and take a course on gender identity and expression.

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The organization allows players to compete according to their gender identity, rather than their biological sex — placing females at higher risk of injury.

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CaWsbar, a non-profit that I co-founded, also has ongoing litigation against the Canadian government to remove biological males from women’s prisons across the country.

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For years, female inmates have effectively been locked in cages with dangerous male sex offenders, including those at B.C.’s Fraser Valley Institution, who live alongside a rapist, murderer and pedophile known as Tara Desousa.

The prison also runs a mother-child program. Read that again: there is a convicted male pedophile-rapist-killer in a women’s prison where babies and children also live.

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Clearly, the war against gender ideology in Canada is still being waged. Carney has said and done nothing to address the appalling legal injustices, the attacks on freedom of speech and belief, the loss of women’s sex-based rights or the threats of harm faced by women and children as a result of gender ideology’s stranglehold over this country.

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Carney is sophisticated enough to understand that he would repulse the average voter by attempting to replicate Trudeau’s moralizing or ostentatious “allyship.” But, do not be lulled into a false sense of moderation. Trudeau is gone. But radical gender ideology is not.

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The poster and definition of a woman the city of Hamilton has censored

Today, we show readers the poster and definition of a woman the city of Hamilton, Ontario doesn't want people to see. It chose to censor it by not permitting the Christian Heritage Party to display it in bus shelters during the last federal election. What are city officials afraid of? They claim it's a safety issue. Really?

Here what the CHP says in their statement regarding "The Truth about Gender ."

Everyone knows what a woman is but ‘woke’ government policies are confusing and harming young people. 'In the beginning, God made them male and female.'

The Christian Heritage Party rejects ‘woke’ gender ideology. We challenged the City of Hamilton in a Judicial Review when they denied us permission to put this poster on Hamilton bus-shelters.

The Judicial Review found in favour of the City of Hamilton but we can’t let it rest there. The lives of women and girls are being negatively impacted by radical government policies. We don’t want to back down, however, we can only afford to take this case to the finish line if we have enough help from Canadians who share our values.

Will you commit to helping us to press forward with this case for women’s rights?

About "Safety and Privacy."

Women and girls have a God-given right to privacy in washrooms, change rooms and shower facilities. That right must be protected by law.

And on the question of "Men and Boys in Women’s and Girls’ Sports."

When biological males are allowed to compete in women’s and girls’ sports, their greater muscle mass and stronger skeletal structures deny legitimate female competitors the opportunity to succeed.

Our female athletes are being injured in contact sports as they face-off against heavier biological male athletes.

The Christian Heritage Party has rightly taken the case to court. There is a Judicial Review underway. For the sake of protecting freedom of expression and women in sports and society, we hope the CHP wins the case. Help spread the word, and if you can, donate to the CHP so that the biological rights of women can be protected. And so too freedom and democracy. 

This is also another attack, under the guise of inclusion, on Christian belief in Canada. We must not remain silent.

Alberta announces ban on sexually explicit books in school libraries

Some common sense for a change

 https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/alberta-announces-ban-on-sexually-explicit-books-in-school-libraries/?utm_source=featured-news&utm_campaign=canada

Ruler Supreme! who hearest humble prayer, Hold Thy Dominion in Thy loving care;

O Canada! our home and native land!
True patriot-love in all thy sons command. 

With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
And stand on guard, O Canada,
We stand on guard for thee.

[Chorus:]
O Canada, glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

O Canada! where pines and maples grow,
Great prairies spread, and lordly rivers flow.
How dear to us thy broad domain,
From East to Western sea.
The land of hope for all who toil,
The True North strong and free!

[Chorus:]
O Canada, glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

O Canada! beneath our shining skies,
May stalwart sons, and gentle maidens rise.
To keep thee steadfast through the years,
From east to western sea,
Our own beloved native land,
Our true north strong and free!

[Chorus:]
O Canada, glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

Ruler Supreme! who hearest humble prayer,
Hold thy Dominion in thy loving care;
Help us to find, Oh God, in thee,
A lasting rich reward.
As waiting for the Better Day,
We ever stand on guard.

O Canada, Glorious and free! Amen

Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe: The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe: The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: Today was the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Fr. Michael explained to us in his homily that today is a good day to ask Jesus for what w...

How Modern Society Accidentally Created a Catholic Boom

Corpus Christi Procession, Saint Patrick Basilica, Ottawa, ON - June 22, 2025

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Rwanda’s Warning - Mark Mallett

Rwanda’s Warning

 https://www.markmallett.com/blog/rwandas-warning/

Exerpt From the Article

In particular, is the admonition that was issued from Our Lady of Kibeho. In what is now a Church-approved apparition, the young seers of Kibeho, Rwanda saw in graphic detail — some 12 years before it occurred — the genocide that would eventually take place there. They conveyed Our Lady’s message of the call to repentance so as to avert catastrophe… but the message was not heeded. Most ominously, the seers reported that Mary’s appeal…

…is not directed to only one person nor does it concern only the current time; it is directed to everyone in the entire world. —www.kibeho.org

Bishop Scott McCaig of the Military Ordinariate of Canada spoke with Nathalie Mukamazimpaka, one of the three seers from whom the Holy See based their positive ruling of the apparitions. He told me that she kept repeating during the course of their conversation how necessary it is to “pray for the Church.” She emphasized, “We are going to go through very hard times.” Indeed, in another message to the seers, Our Lady of Kibeho warned,

The world hastens to its ruin, it will fall into the abyss… The world is rebellious against God, it commits too many sins, it has neither love nor peace. If you do not repent and do not convert your hearts, you will fall into the abyss. —to visionary Marie-Claire on March 27, 1982, catholicstand.com

For years, Our Lady has been repeatedly warning that we need to take her cries seriously. Hundreds of statues and icons around the world have wept, not only fragrant oil, but blood. [2] She has called us to open our hearts to Jesus, close the door to sin, and to fast and pray, especially the Rosary. In the context of these exhortations, I wrote about why it is crucial to close the “cracks” in our life here.

Holy Hour for Peace in the Middle East - Saint Patrick Basilica, June 20, 2025

https://www.basilica.ca/

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  • Good God,
     gracious Father,
     creator of us all,
     have mercy on us.
    
    
  • O Jesus,
     Son of God and Son of Man,
     our brother,
     have mercy on us.
    
    
  • True Spirit,
     moving over us,
     Lord and giver of life,
     have mercy on us.
    
    
  • Look at our world, broken by sin.
     Look at our hearts, broken in grief.
     Look at our minds, shaken in confusion.
     Have mercy on us.
    
    
  • Forgive our shortsightedness and open our eyes.
     Forgive our hate and empower us to love.
     Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us.
    
  •  Have mercy on us.
    
    
  • On those who are angry,
     on those who are hurting,
     on those who are weary,
     on those who work for peace,
     on those who protect and serve,
     on those who suffer loss,
     on those who are vulnerable,
     have mercy, Lord.
    
    
  • Give wisdom to those who lead,
     give patience to those who wait,
     give healing to those who hurt.
     Have mercy, Lord.
    
    
  • Father, from one man you made every nation of humanity,
     you make the sun shine and the rain fall on the wicked and the good,
     you so loved the world that you gave your only Son,
     have mercy.
    
    
  • Jesus, you took on human flesh and became the brother of the human race,
     you suffered great injustice to bear the sin of the world,
     you are the tree of life whose leaves bring healing to the nations,
     have mercy.
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  • Holy Spirit, you moved the apostles to speak the languages of all nations,
     you let your Word go out to all people,
     you call and gather your church from all the world,
    have mercy.
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  • See our world and our nation.
     Help the helpless,
     strengthen the weak,
     soften the hardened,
     warm the loveless,
     cool the angry,
     cleanse our hearts.
     have mercy.
    
    
  • Father and maker of all, you let this world stand because you are gracious. 
  • Work that same grace within us that we love because you first loved us, 
  • that we imitate you as your beloved children, and live our lives in love; 
  • through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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  • Jesus, Savior of all people and lover of all souls, show us what love is yet again by 
  • setting your selfless love before our eyes. You welcomed tax collectors and zealots, 
  • and taught them all the way of love. When you were dying you forgave those 
  • who didn’t know what they were doing. You gave your friends who deserted you 
  • your greeting of peace. Empower us to love, forgive, and give us your peace; 
  • Jesus Christ our Lord.
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  • Holy Spirit, you caused Scripture to be written that we might learn love that is the 
  • fulfillment of the law, and that we might know Jesus and follow him in love. 
  • You give the spark of faith and you fan faith into flame. 
  • Move us to put our faith and hope to work with an active love, 
  • that we listen before speaking, think before acting, 
  • and consider the needs of others before our own.
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  A Prayer for Peace 

  Lord Jesus Christ, You are the true King of peace. In You alone is found freedom. 

  Please free our world from conflict. 

  Bring unity to troubled nations. 

  Let Your glorious peace reign in every heart. 

  Dispel all darkness and evil. 

  Protect the dignity of every human life. Replace hatred with Your love. 

  Give wisdom to world leaders. 

  Free them from selfish ambition. Eliminate all violence and war. 

  Glorious Virgin Mary, 

  Saint Michael the Archangel, Every angel and saint: 

  Please pray for peace. 

  Pray for unity amongst nations. 

  Pray for unity amongst all people. 

  Pray for the most vulnerable. 

  Pray for those suffering. 

  Pray for the fearful. 

  Pray for those most in need. Pray for us all. 

  Jesus, Son of the Living God, have mercy on us. 

  Jesus, hear our prayers. Jesus, I trust in You! 

  Amen. 

   

  Prayer for Peace—St. John Paul II 

  Lord Jesus Christ, who are called the Prince of Peace, who are Yourself our peace and reconciliation, who so often said, “Peace to you” – please grant us peace. 

  Make all men and women witnesses of truth, justice and brotherly love. Banish from their hearts whatever might endanger peace. Enlighten our rulers that they may guarantee and defend the great gi gift of peace. 

  May all peoples on the earth become as brothers and sisters. 

  May longed-for peace blossom forth and reign always over us all. Amen. 

    

  Prayer for Peace—Pope Francis 

  Lord God of peace, hear our prayer! 

  We have tried so many times and over so many years to resolve our conflicts by our own powers and by the force of our arms. How many moments of hoslity and darkness have we experienced; how much blood has been shed; how many lives have been shatered; how many hopes have been buried… But our efforts have been in vain.

  Now, Lord, come to our aid! Grant us peace, teach us peace; guide our steps in the way of peace. Open our eyes and our hearts, and give us the courage to say: “Never again war!”; “With war everything is lost”. Insltill in our hearts the courage to take concrete steps to achieve peace. 

  Lord, God of Abraham, God of the Prophets, God of Love, you created us and you call us to live as brothers and sisters. Give us the strength daily to be instruments of peace; enable us to see everyone who crosses our path as our brother or sister. Make us sensitive to the plea of our citizens who entreat us to turn our weapons of war into implements of peace, our trepidation into confident trust, and our quarreling into forgiveness. 

  Keep alive within us the flame of hope, so that with patience and perseverance we may opt for dialogue and reconciliation. In this way may peace triumph at last, and may the words “division”, “hatred” and “war” be banished from the heart of every man and woman. Lord, defuse the violence of our tongues and our hands. Renew our hearts and minds, so that the word which always brings us together will be “brother”, and our way of life will always be that of: Shalom, Peace, Salaam! 

  Amen. 
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