{"id":23969,"date":"2008-09-11T05:59:40","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T09:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/09\/world-day-of-prayer-for-peace\/"},"modified":"2008-09-11T05:59:40","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T09:59:40","slug":"world-day-of-prayer-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/09\/world-day-of-prayer-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"World Day of Prayer for Peace: September 11th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Sept11th.jpg\"><\/a><\/span>God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world:<br \/>peace in the hearts of all men and women<br \/>and peace among the nations of the earth.<br \/>Turn to your way of love<br \/>those whose hearts and minds<br \/>are consumed with hatred.<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Sept11th.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 20px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Sept11th.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Sept11th-thumb-120x120.jpg\" width=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/span>God of understanding,<br \/>overwhelmed by the magnitude of this tragedy,<br \/>we seek your light and guidance<br \/>as we confront such terrible events.<br \/>Grant that those whose lives were spared<br \/>may live so that the lives lost here<br \/>may not have been lost in vain.<br \/>Comfort and console us,<br \/>strengthen us in hope,<br \/>and give us the wisdom and courage<br \/>to work tirelessly for a world<br \/>where true peace and love reign<br \/>among nations and in the hearts of all.<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">(Pope Benedict XVI, Prayer at Ground Zero, April 20, 2008)<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><font color=\"#000000\">&#8220;The World Day of Prayer for Peace will bring to the world the Church&#8217;s message of peace and reconciliation, so that religion will always be a cause for mutual respect and harmony, and never for violence or hatred,&#8221; said KofC Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world:peace in the hearts of all men and womenand peace among the nations of the earth.Turn to your way of lovethose whose hearts and mindsare consumed with hatred. God of understanding,overwhelmed by the magnitude of this tragedy,we seek your light and guidanceas we confront such terrible &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/09\/world-day-of-prayer-for-peace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World Day of Prayer for Peace: September 11th<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}