The Vatican and the International Forum of Catholic Action (FIAC) invite, this Saturday, June 8, to join in prayer with Pope Francis for peace in the world, through the “One Minute for Peace” initiative.
The Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life encourages everyone, especially ecclesial associations and movements, to participate and promote “this simple proposal that is addressed to each person, wherever they are.”
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The proposal is the following: “wherever you are at 1:00 p.m. on June 8, alone or in company, whatever faith you belong to, the invitation is to bow your head for a minute and pray for peace.” in Ukraine, in the Holy Land, in Myanmar and in all places in conflict.”
This year, warns use of the dicastery, “the number of active conflicts is very high, with tragic consequences for populations, children, women, the elderly, fragile people and young people.”
This year’s theme is “We want peace. An urgency, a right, a need”, which was chosen “to call everyone to pray for peace and motivate a commitment in the logic of the Beatitudes, on the path of dialogue, for a culture of encounter and embrace between people.” people and between peoples.”
Eva Fernández Mateo, coordinator of the FIAC and president of General Catholic Action of Spain, points out that “although the paths of mediation sometimes seem closed” in the face of conflicts, “as believers and conscious citizens of many countries, we want to insist, with the Pope Francis, in the call for a more just and free world in which no one is denied the first essential condition for living: peace.”
This June 6, when it is also 80 years since the Normandy Landings or D-Day, with which the end of the Second World War was achieved, Pope Francis encourages in his count of (formerly Twitter) to pray together “for the victims of wars, wars of the past and those of the present.”
“May God help all those who suffer from them today; The poor and the weak, the elderly, women and children are always the first victims of these tragedies,” the Holy Father prayed.
“A minute for peace” was launched on June 6, 2014 at 1:00 p.m., to support the “Invocation for Peace”, promoted by Pope Francis two days later in the Vatican Gardens together with the President of Israel , Simon Peres; the President of the Palestinian Authority, Maḥmūd ʿAbbās – Abu Mazen; and the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I.
More information in https://es.catholicactionforum.org/
Walter Sánchez Silva
I have been a husband since 2008. My wife and I have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before he was born. Since I joined ACI Prensa in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Cologne, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and of Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the Family synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Synodality, in 2023. I closely follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers persecution from the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as current ecclesiastical events in the region.