Peace begins with You. And with Me. Now.
The slogan for 8 June 2025 invites us to take personal and communitarian responsibility and to participate urgently in building peace day by day as lay Christians immersed in our time, which unfortunately sees a ‘third world war in pieces’.
Pope Leo XIV encourages us: ‘This is the peace of the Risen Christ, an unarmed peace and a disarming peace, humble and persevering. It comes from God, God who loves us all unconditionally. (…) Help us too, and then help one another, to build bridges through dialogue and encounter, uniting us all to be one people always at peace.’
Humanity – dialogue – common good are the three words that will help develop the general topic in the coming weeks, with three steps every Wednesday (21-28 May and 4 June), on the way to 8 June 2025.
We leave it to you to promote this roadmap towards 8 June, when we will stop to invoke peace at 1 p.m. in every country.
Wherever you happen to be,
Sunday 8 June 2025 at 1.00 p.m.,
Stop to invoke peace, everyone according to his own tradition.
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- On the afternoon of 8 June, there will be a special event on the occasion of the Jubilee of Associations and Movements, on Pentecost Sunday:
Pax et bonum. Establishing peace for the common good through international law
International Conference and Torchlight procession – Rome and on line, 8 June 2025
We can all participate online FORM
- During this Easter Season, we also commemorate the prayer proposal Via Lucis – Via Pacis
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One Minute for Peace was launched for the first time on June 6, 2014 at 1 p.m., in support of the “Invocation for Peace” meeting, promotedby Pope Francis on June 8 in the Vatican Gardens togetherwith the President of Israel (Simon Peres), the President ofthe Palestinian Authority (Maḥmūd ʿAbbās – Abu Mazen),and the Patriarch of Constantinople (Bartholomew I).
