May we open our hearts to pray for a better world for all our human family and to care for our shared home, the earth. A better world needs all of us.
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ALT Green plants with the text: May God give wisdom and courage to those who work for peace. We pray that their efforts may be blessed, that they may bring an end to violence and solace and stability to suffering peoples. May the gift of peace permeate all troubled souls, convert all who live by violence and comfort all children who live in menacing situations, that the freedom to enjoy life and grow in safety may be theirs. And may each one of us know peace of mind and heart, peace of body and spirit, peace of community and world. Holy Spirit of Peace, grant our prayer. Amen. Sr Bridgetta Rooney/CAFOD
ALT Two cupped hands painted with a red heart.
ALT Part of a colouring sheet showing people exchanging gifts
ALT A roman denarius with the text: ""Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”
ALT White text on navy background: Christ has no body but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which he looks Compassion on this world, Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good, Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world.
ALT St Oscar Romero with a group of children and young people
ALT Pope Leo attending an audience. Text reads: Praying for Pope Leo © Mazur/cbcew.org.uk
ALT A prayer graphic with an image of a candle. It reads: "God, our strength and our help in times of trouble, be with your people now, in the aftermath of this earthquake. Move us to come together offering shelter for the homeless, rest to the weary comfort to the injured and distressed so that although all is unsteady and faith may be shaken, the light of your hope shines through. We ask this through Christ our Lord, Amen."
ALT A portrait of St John Henry Newman with the text: “God has created me to do him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission. I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons."
ALT Rosary colouring sheet for children
ALT An illustration of St Francis, surrounded by animals with the text of Pope Leo's prayer for the Jubilee Year of St Francis. Text reads: Saint Francis, our brother, you who eight hundred years ago went to meet Sister Death as a man at peace, intercede for us before the Lord. You recognized true peace in the Crucifix of San Damiano, teach us to seek in Him the source of all reconciliation that breaks down every wall. You who, unarmed, crossed the lines of war and misunderstanding, give us the courage to build bridges where the world raises up boundaries. In this time afflicted by conflict and division, intercede for us so that we may become peacemakers: unarmed and disarming witnesses of the peace that comes from Christ. Amen
ALT Part of a colouring in showing people caring for creation.
ALT A large group of children at school in Zimbabwe. Text reads: Lead us to hunger and thirst for a better world, where we put our faith into action and seek to love our neighbour so that all your children may flourish. Amen.
ALT An illustration of a St. Thérèse stained glass window, with the text: "Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love." St. Thérèse of Lisieux
ALT Rooftop statue of angel
ALT Part of an illustrations by Sarah Khayat, a Syrian artist working with Women Now to tell stories of refugees at the centre in Lebanon.