Pope Francis: Ask the Lord to “disarm the hand of the armed adversary”

The gathered crowd that attended the ceremony of the Way of Martyrdom, on Holy Friday of the Catholics, prayed a little while ago, in favor of peace in the whole world.

As Rai TV has observed, APE-MPE, the meditation for peace that was published and distributed by Vatican, finally not read. Probably to avoid tensions with some of the Ukrainian diplomats and clergy, the local Of the Catholic Churchwho had challenged the whole initiative.

Concluding the ceremony, the Pope Francis asked from the Lord “to push the adversaries to shake hands and to disarm the brother’s armed hand, so that where there is hatred unity may flourish”.

“The only way is forgiveness”

Earlier, in the Colosseum, the ceremony of Good Friday of the Catholics took place, with the representation of the street of the Martyrdom of Jesus. In fourteen – in total – stops, more than seventy people will carry the wooden cross. Among them, members of Italian families, one Russian and one Ukrainian.

At the thirteenth stop of the Via Crucis, the cross will be lifted, together with their families, by Irina and Albina, two nurses from Ukraine and Russia, who work in Rome. “And in such a dramatic situation, the only way is forgiveness, we must give it to ourselves.”Albina said on Rai TV, shortly before the start of this religious ceremony. “Many Ukrainians live in Russia, and many Russians in Ukraine. It is definitely a tragedy for both of our peoples. “added Irina.

According to the APE-MPE from Wednesday, during the thirteenth stop of the representation of Martyriou Street, in the crowded area of ​​the Colosseum, the following text was to be read, which expresses the agony, the anger, but also the search for hope. , by people living the nightmarish experience of war:

“Death all around, life that seems to lose value. Everything changes in a few seconds. The existence, the days, the care of the snow in Winter, going to pick up the children from school, work, hugs and friendships. All. Everything, suddenly, loses value. Where are you Lord? We want our lives back. Where did you hide? Why is all this happening? What is our pity? Why did you leave us? Why did you abandon our peoples? Why did you divide our families in this way? Why do we not have the appetite to live and dream? Why did our homelands become dark like Golgotha? The tears dried. Anger gave way to resignation. We know you love us, Lord, but we do not feel love, it drives us crazy. We wake up in the morning and for a few seconds we are happy, but immediately afterwards we remember how difficult it is to reconcile. Sir, where are you? “Speak, in the silence of death and division, and teach us how to make peace, to be brothers, to build again, everything that the bombs would like to destroy.”

Source: News Beast

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