Pope Francis began a lively prayer for peace on Wednesday, asking for “forgiveness” for death and violence in Ukraine, and quoting Cain and Abel.
“The Lord Jesus, born under the bomb of Kiev,” “died in the arms of his mother in the bunker of Kharkov,” “sent to the front at the age of 20, have mercy on us,” the Pope moved noticeably, reading the prayer of the Italian bishop for Ukraine at the end of the weekly general audience in the Vatican.
Pope Francis asked for forgiveness on behalf of those who “continued to drink the blood of the dead broken by weapons” and “the hands made to protect became instruments of death.”
The chief of 1.3 billion Catholics begged God to “block Cain's hand.” “If we continue to kill our brothers, if we continue to kill our brothers, if we continue to raise stones in our land like Cain and kill Abel”, alludes to the biblical character, the firstborn of Adam and Eve, the younger brother.
The Pope said: “(...) If our suffering legalizes the cruelty of our actions, forgive me.”
On Sunday, February 24, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Pope, who multiplied his call for peace, called for an “end to the massacre” in the United States.
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