Pope Francis launched a vibrant prayer for peace on Wednesday, asking for “forgiveness” for the death and violence in Ukraine, and citing Cain and Abel.
“Lord Jesus, born under the bombs of kyiv”, “died in the arms of the mother in a bunker in Kharkov”, “sent to the front at the age of 20, have mercy on us”, said the pontiff, visibly moved, reading the prayer of an Italian bishop for Ukraine, at the end of the weekly general audience in the Vatican.
Francis apologized on behalf of men, who “continue to drink the blood of the dead, torn apart by weapons”, and whose hands “created to protect have become instruments of death”.
The head of 1.3 billion Catholics “begged” God to “stop the hand of Cain”, asking for forgiveness “if we continue to kill our brother, if we continue like Cain lifting stones from our land to kill Abel”, alluding to the character Biblical, firstborn of Adam and Eve, who killed his younger brother.
“Forgive us if (…) our pain legitimizes the brutality of our acts,” the pope continued, before the faithful gathered in the Paul VI room, many of whom carried Ukrainian flags.
On Sunday, the pontiff, who has multiplied calls for peace since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, had called for “an end to the massacre” in the country. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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