The request and plea for peace continues to be recurrent and intense in the Holy Father at the end of May, with different accents.
The Solemnity of Pentecost, a week ago, concluded the Easter Season. Yesterday the Pope closed the month of May with a rosary for peace in the Grotto of Lourdes in the Vatican Gardens. “Even in times of conflict, peace is possible,” he said.
And today, Sunday, Leo XIV once again invoked peace. In May, he stressed, the whole Church raised a unanimous invocation for peace. Especially through the prayer of the Holy Rosary, commending peoples tormented by war to the intercession of the Virgin Mary.
“May divine Wisdom enlighten the conscience of those who exercise authority and guide their decisions towards the sincere search for a just and lasting peace”, he prayed.
“Mystery of God the Trinity: we are at home”.”
In celebrating today “the Mystery of God the Trinity”, the Successor of Peter began before praying the Àngelus, The book offers us the opportunity to reflect on the road we have traveled, “starting from its center, which is the life of God given to us in Jesus Christ”.
Leo XIV told the Romans and pilgrims, whom he called friends, that “in the Mystery of God, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, we are at home, just as Nicodemus felt at home with Jesus”.
God's life is “wonderful and captivating, it gives peace to our hearts, often so restless,” and allows us to meet as brothers and sisters in the joy of the Spirit, the Pontiff continued in his reflection.
“The Trinity makes us love everything and everyone; we discover that every creature is made for communion, relationship, encounter.
And, by contrast, we understand why divisions, polarizations and disregard for diversity bring destruction, sadness and aridity to the world,” he added.
“Today, God's feast is our feast.”
“Today, however, dear brothers and sisters, is a feast. God's feast is our feast. That is why St. Paul writes to the Corinthians: ‘Finally, brethren, rejoice, work for your own perfection, be of good cheer, be of one mind and live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you’ (2 Cor 13:11).
And now, with the prayer of the Angelus, “we turn to the Virgin Mary; in her “yes” to the divine Will, may our “yes” to the love of God flourish. the Holy Trinity".
Pilgrims from Cameroon, Slovakia, Poland, Italians...
In his greetings, after the Angelus Marian prayer, the Pope welcomed the bishop and pilgrims from the diocese of Kumba, in Cameroon, as well as the parish choir of Dunajska Luzna, in Slovakia. He also greeted the Poles present, as well as the participants in the large pilgrimage to the Shrine of Piekary, where Mary is venerated as Mother of Social Justice.
He also greeted the Alpine Group of Rivoli, the young people of San Zeno Naviglio and the participants in the “Inclusion Relay Race”, with some banners made by students of Italian high schools.
Pope Pope's Rosary at the Grotto of Lourdes yesterday brought together Marian shrines from around the world. Coordinated by the Vatican's Dicastery for Evangelization, the rosary initiative brought together some of the world's most visited Marian pilgrimage sites. In the United States, several hundred people gathered at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington.
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