Beloved, peace to you from Jerusalem!
We reach you with these words to respond to the many messages of solidarity and request for information on what is happening. We ask you to pray, knowing that it is the only most powerful action we can do now. We can ask God this: to have a deep look at reality, perceiving with him the invisible, that is more real than the visible! This does not mean living disembodied... indeed!
"Our battle is not against creatures made of blood and flesh - Saint Paul tells us - but against the Principalities, the Powers, against the Dominators of this world of darkness, against the evil spirits" (Eph 6:12-13).
It is normal that each of us, through images and media news, feels a part of people’s suffering and what is happening in this land, already tormented. This is horrible and irrational. We find a light in the Word of God: "If a member suffers, all the members suffer together, if a member is honored, all the members rejoice with him" (1 Cor 12:26). How true these words are! But if, on the one hand, we suffer with those who suffer, in the same way, with the offer of small and concrete faithfulness of love, we can be consolation, a 'caress' that gives relief to those who cry in pain.
All this we think can be considered living a profound communion and "making of our life a sacrifice to the living God" (cf. Rom 12:1). The secret of this simple invitation is precisely this: we can all help those who are in trial with our concrete prayer, and God, who knows and sees, mysteriously administers the good that is really consolation for the "suffering members of this wounded humanity".
Rather than taking sides on one side or the other, let us try to perceive how deeply God suffers in seeing his children, made in his image, who attack each other, kill each other, hate each other, using the talents He gave them to hurt each other, children made in his image but no longer in his likeness.
From this holy place where the Son of God fought to save 'by his blood men of every tribe, tongue, people and nation' (Rev 5:9), we invite you to kneel with us on this Rock, beside our Lord Jesus Christ, He alone has the power to stop and dominate the evil that wants to destroy all humanity. We christians, members of Christ, have a great responsibility to intercede with God, together with Mary Most Holy, Queen of Peace, for the salvation of the whole world.
Let’s pray without tiring
