Brothers and sisters, the testimony of Mary reveals to us how to advance on the path to the God of our hope who is incarnate and made present in our world and history. Let us pray.
We want to be with Mary, instruments of peace
• That the Church, following the example of the shepherds, sets up its tent on the peripheries where God is revealed and incarnate in the poor, in the marginalized and disadvantaged of this world.
We want to be with Mary, instruments of peace
• That believers do not seek God in the marvelous and miraculous, but in the everyday, in the simple birth of every human being.
We want to be with Mary, instruments of peace
• That all of us do not forget that when the Son of God became man, he made every human face a sign and revelation of God and a sacrament of his presence on this earth.
We want to be with Mary, instruments of peace
• That we be aware that there can be no Christmas, no Good News, no New Year, if we are not capable of discovering in the suffering faces of the poor the features of God.
We want to be with Mary, instruments of peace
• May Mary remind us that all human existence, even in its smallness and weakness, is sacred and an expression of the constant saving action of God.
• We want to be with Mary, instruments of peace.
Good Father Mother, peace is a gift from God and a task for all; at the beginning of this Year and with Mary, Queen of Peace, we want to be seeds of peace in each day, with those of each day.
Vicky Irigaray
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