Happy New Year! As we begin 2018 let us remember that today
marks the 51st World Day of Peace.
Pope Francis’ theme for this year is:
Migrants and refugees: men and women in search of peace. Pope Francis urges us to turn a
"contemplative gaze" toward our migrant and refugee brothers and
sisters and to respond to their plight.
Pope Francis encourages us to embrace all those fleeing from war and
hunger, or forced by discrimination, persecution, poverty and environmental
degradation to leave their homelands.
Let us heed his message as we pray a Prayer for the New Year
Heavenly
Father, we thank you for the year that has just passed and the many blessings
you have showered upon us in time.
We
beg your pardon for our many failings and transgressions and we pray that the
coming year may be a more fruitful one.
We
earnestly pray for the gift of the Holy Spirit and we call upon our Lord Jesus
Christ for his intercession, his guidance, and his light to shine our path into
a new year filled with love, peace and hope.
May 2018 be filled with many
blessings for all. May our God of light,
love and peace touch the hearts of those who are leading others and making
decisions. May we become a people of
peace!
Pat Schifini, OSU
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