(12 May 09 - RV) Below we publish the prayer which this morning the Holy Father placed
at Jerusalems' Western Wall: "God of all the ages, on my visit to Jerusalem,
the “City of Peace”, spiritual home to Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, I
bring before you the joys, the hopes and the aspirations, the trials, the suffering
and the pain of all your people throughout the world. God of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob, hear the cry of the afflicted, the fearful, the bereft; send your peace
upon this Holy Land, upon the Middle East, upon the entire human family; stir
the hearts of all who call upon your name, to walk humbly in the path of justice
and compassion. “The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that
seeks him” (Lam 3:25)!"