In a prayer for peace in Marseille on Sunday, Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline denounced the Kremlin’s actions in Ukraine. In his homily, on the square of the basilica of Notre-Dame de la Garde, the archbishop of Marseilles focused on the war in Ukraine and on this conflict triggered “by the invasion of the Russian armies”.
In front of a few hundred people, including representatives of various religions and the mayor of Marseille Benoît Payan, the cleric stigmatized “the appalling cynicism” of the Russian government which, “in alliance with winter”, is now attacking “Ukrainian civilians with depriving them of electricity, heating, water and food”, “with the aim of punishing a people”.
Archbishop Aveline also wanted to pray for the Russian people “so that all peoples, whatever their leaders say, often too corrupt to be far-sighted, ask for peace and not war”.
