On the finish of the Angelus prayer, the Pope requested the Virgin Mary, who is widely known because the Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel on July 16, to intercede for territories wounded by battle conflicts. The Pope asks the trustworthy for prayers: “Let’s not neglect Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, Myanmar. A name to hope additionally for sailors and people who take care of them, on the “Sunday of the Sea”, which falls on right this moment.
Salvatore Cernuzio – Vatican Information
“Please…”, the Pope urges after the Angelus prayer this Sunday, July 14, from the window of the Apostolic Palace: “Please, let’s not neglect the beleaguered Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, Myanmar”. A plea to the trustworthy who’re crowded within the sun-drenched St. Peter’s Sq., even earlier than a plea to God and the Virgin Mary, to whom he entrusts these territories affected by violence.
On the finish of the Angel of the Lord prayer, Francis recollects the liturgical vacation of July 16, established in reminiscence of the apparition of the Virgin Mary on Mount Carmel in 1251. He asks her for intercession:
Could he beseech consolation and peace for all nations which are bothered by the horrors of battle.
Nations wounded by battle conflicts
As in each Angelus prayer or common viewers, the Pope lists one after the other the conflict-ridden nations: Ukraine, the place Russian airstrikes, concentrated primarily within the areas of Kharkiv and Kherson, have killed civilians and induced quite a few accidents, together with youngsters, in current days; The Holy Land, shaken by the current massacre in Khan Yunis, the umpteenth in a row, with 90 victims, a lot of whom have been girls and minors; Myanmar ravaged, greater than three years after the coup, by a bloody battle, usually ignored by the world public.
Prayers for sailors
The Pope attracts the world’s consideration to those nations and asks for prayers. He asks the identical for all sailors on the event of right this moment’s Marine Sunday.
Allow us to pray for many who work within the maritime sector and people who take care of them.
The Pope’s contribution to Maritime Sunday
Already in a submit on his account X @Pontifex in 9 languages, Francis paid tribute to this class of staff and known as for a standard prayer “asking that Mary, Star of the Sea, accompany all these whose work is linked to the ocean and their households and cause them to their strategy to Christ”.
In a message for right this moment’s anniversary, issued on June 24, signed by Cardinal Michael Czerny, Prefect of the Dicastery for Integral Human Growth, the Holy See known as on church buildings to make seen these working within the maritime sector and promote their dignity and rights. And he inspired change and solidarity between peoples and religions: “We can’t be open to the probabilities of life,” declared Cardinal Czerny, “if we favor the consolation of acquainted issues”.
