International Day of Prayer for Peace in Holy Land
(January 28.2012 At least 2500 cities around the world will participate Sunday in
the IV International Day of Prayer for Peace in the Holy Land, an initiative launched
by youth groups and Eucharistic adoration groups, involving also the Latin Patriarchate
of Jerusalem and Custody of the Holy Land. The Day is promoted by various realities
of young people: the National Association Papaboys, the Apostolate "Youth For Life"
, the chapels of perpetual adoration around the world. . Many of their representatives
will be present Sunday at the Angelus with the Pope in St Peter's Square. Others will
commemorate the theme of the day during mass and take part in Eucharistic adoration.
Cardinal. Peter Turkson, President of the Vatican Council for Justice and Peace, has
sent a message to mark the event to the young people who will pray for Christian unity
and peace in the Holy Land. In it he stresses that "young people are and can be a
resource for peace .... The period of your youth is the season of life where you look
with enthusiasm to the great values that today, unfortunately, seem to be very weak:
truth, freedom, justice, love, brotherhood ... I thank you for showing the world the
active, beautiful and young face of the Church of Christ. " Marking the Day, Sunday
morning, beginning at 6am in Jerusalem, Mass will be celebrated at the altar of Calvary,
in the basilica of the Holy Sepulchre. Fr. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Custos of the
Holy Land, sent a greeting to the young people: "... I welcome the fourth International
Day of Prayer for peace in the Holy Land. An event that enriches this month of shared
reflection on the Gift we have just received, and invites us to overcome every division,
to give thanks to God who gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ