February 21, 2024 Reflection – Also today I call you to pray for peace.

Also today I call you to pray for peace.

February 21, 2024

Dear Family of Mary!

March 25, 2003 
“Dear children!

Also today I call you to pray for peace.

Pray with the heart, little children,
and do not lose hope
because God loves His creatures.

He desires to save you,
one by one,
through my coming here.

I call you to the way of holiness.

Pray, and in prayer
you are open to God’s will;

in this way, in everything you do,
you realize God’s plan in you and through you.

Thank you for having responded to my call.”

Our Lady calls us to pray for peace. She knows that it is only through God’s grace that we will be able to find and live out God’s plan for peace in the world. We very much want to help her in her peace plan for the world. And we know it is first of all a matter of intense prayer.

Here is a prayer written by Pope Benedict XVI in which he asks Our Lady to guide us in the prayer for peace:

May the Virgin Mary give us her Son,
may she show us the Face of her Son,
the Prince of Peace.

May she help us to remain
in the light of this face
that shines upon us (cf. Nm 6:25),
in order to rediscover
all the tenderness of God the Father;

may it be she who supports us
in invoking the Holy Spirit
so that he will renew the face of the earth
and transform hearts,

dissolving their hardness
in the face of the disarming goodness
of the Child who was born for us.

May the Mother of God
accompany us in this New Year;
may she obtain for us and for the whole world
the desired gift of peace.
Amen.
(Pope Benedict XVI – Feast of Mary the Mother of God, 2011)

In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
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