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March 17, 2022

Dear Brothers and Sisters

Let’s continue praying for the people of Ukraine and for the world.

I would like to share a prayer for peace from Pope Francis.

“Lord, God of Abraham, God of the Prophets, God of Love, you created us and you call us to live as brothers and sisters.  Give us the strength daily to be instruments of peace; enable us to  see everyone who crosses our path as our brother or sister.

Make us sensitive to the plea of our citizens who entreat us to turn our weapons of war into implements of peace, our trepidation into confident trust, and our quarreling into forgiveness.

Keep alive within us the flame of hope, so that with patience and perseverance we may opt for dialogue and reconciliation.  In this way may peace triumph at last, and may the words “division”, “hatred”, and “war” be banished from the heart of every man and woman.

 Lord defuse the violence of our tongues and our hands.  Renew our hearts and minds, so that the word which always brings us together will be “brother”, and our way of life will always be that of: Shalom, Peace, Salaam!”

In His Love,

Father Patrick M. Marshall


Estimados Hermanos y Hermanas,

Continuemos orando por el pueblo de Ucrania y por el mundo.

Me gustaría compartir una oración por la paz del Papa Francisco.

“Señor, Dios de Abraham, Dios de los Profetas, Dios de Amor que nos has creado y nos llamas a vivir como hermanos, danos la fuerza para ser cada día artesanos de la paz; danos la capacidad de mirar con benevolencia a todos los hermanos que encontramos en nuestro camino. 

Haznos disponibles para escuchar el clamor de nuestros ciudadanos que nos piden transformar nuestras armas en instrumentos de paz, nuestros temores en confianza y nuestras tensiones en perdón.

Mantén encendida en nosotros la llama de la esperanza para tomar con paciente perseverancia opciones de dialogo y reconciliación, para que finalmente triunfe la paz. Y que sean desterradas del corazón de todo hombre estas palabras: división, odio, guerra.

Señor, desarma la lengua y las manos, renueva los corazones y las mentes, para que la palabra que nos lleva al encuentro sea siempre “hermano”, y el estilo de nuestra vida se convierta en Shalom, Paz, Salam”.

En Su Amor,

Padre Patrick M. Marshall

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St. John Berchmans Parish

2517 W. Logan Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60647
773-486-4300

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9:45 a.m. – English
11:30 a.m. – Spanish

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