for justice and peace

To you, Creator of nature and humanity,

 of truth and beauty, I pray:

Hear my voice,

 for it is the voice

 of the victims of all wars and violence

 among individuals and nations.

Hear my voice,

 for it is the voice

 of all children who suffer and who will suffer

 when people put their faith in weapons and war.

Hear my voice

 when I beg you to instill

 into the hearts of all human beings

 the vision of peace,

 the strength of justice

 and the joy of fellowship. 

Hear my voice,

 for I speak for the multitudes

 in every country and in every period of history

 who do not want war

 and are ready to walk the road of peace.

Hear my voice

 and grant insight and strength

 so that we may always respond

 to hatred with love,

 to injustice with total dedication to justice,

 to need with the sharing of self,

 to war with peace.

O God, hear my voice,

 and grant to the world your everlasting peace.

-Pope John Paul II at Hiroshima, Japan, 1981

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