{"id":292812,"date":"2011-10-19T07:33:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T05:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/prayer-for-peace\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:44:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:44:11","slug":"prayer-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/prayer-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer for peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47571 alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 10px;border: 0pt\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111019-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"184\" \/>\ufeff<em>John Paul II had just arrived in Assisi on 24 January 2002. He immediately headed towards Saint Francis Square to welcome the Representatives of the World Religions and their Delegations. After the greeting addressed by the Pope and the introduction by Cardinal <\/em><em>Fran\u00e7ois Xavier Nguy\u00ean Van Thu\u00e2n, the Representatives read out the <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">witnesses for peace<\/span><\/strong> in their respective languages. Here we offer you what was said by Chiara Lubich who, together with Andrea Riccardi, represented the Catholic Church. <\/em>  <strong> <\/strong>  \u00ab<strong>For us Christians, Jesus is the God of Peace.<\/strong>  This is the reason why the Catholic Church makes peace one of its most heartfelt goals. \u201cNothing is lost through peace. Everything can be lost through war,\u201d exclaimed Pius XII. <em>Pacem in Terris <\/em>was the title of one of John XXIII\u2019s encyclicals. \u201cWar never again!\u201d repeated Paul VI while at the United Nations. And John Paul II, after the terrible events of 9-11, indicated the path to peace: \u201cThere is no peace without justice, there is no justice without forgiveness.\u201d  The whole Catholic Church works for peace and there are many paths it follows to reach it. The <strong>dialogues<\/strong> are very effective, following the path traced out by the Second Vatican Council. They guarantee peace because they generate brotherhood.  They take place on a universal level and in different Churches, as well as through groups, associations, ecclesial movements and new communities.  The Church carries out the first dialogue among its own sons and daughters, beginning with building that required communion on every level, which is assurance of peace.  It carries out a second <em>irreversible <\/em>one <strong>with different Churches and ecclesial communities<\/strong>, a dialogue which augments peace in the big Christian family.  <img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-47574\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;border: 0pt\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111019-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"184\" \/>It carries out another one <strong>with the main world religions<\/strong>, based on the \u2018golden rule\u2019 that is present in a number of Sacred Books and which is expressed in the Christian Scriptures with these words: \u2018Do unto others as you would have them do unto you\u2019 (<em>Mt <\/em>7:12). This \u2018golden rule,\u2019 which emphasises the duty to love one\u2019s brothers and sisters, creates pools of universal brotherhood in which peace reigns.  Lastly, dialogue and collaboration on many fronts with all <strong>those who have no religious reference<\/strong> <strong>point<\/strong> but are men and women of goodwill, so we can also build peace with them.  Therefore, various expressions of one big dialogue, generator of that brotherhood which in this extremely difficult historical moment can become the soul of the vast worldwide community, which today\u2019s workforce and government are paradoxically beginning to hope for.\u00bb  <em> <\/em>  <em>24 January 2002<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The witness given by Chiara Lubich, together with the representatives of the world religions present at Assisi 2002<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}