Catholic bishops in Alabama joined Pope Francis to offer a special prayer service on Friday asking for help from Mary, mother of Jesus, in ending the Ukraine-Russia war.
Catholic bishops worldwide, including in Alabama, joined Pope Francis to offer a special prayer service on Friday asking for help from Mary, mother of Jesus, in ending the Ukraine-Russia war.
“The people of Ukraine and Russia, who venerate you with great love, now turn to you, even as your heart beats with compassion for them and for all those peoples decimated by war, hunger, injustice and poverty,” Pope Francis said during the service in Rome, according to Vatican News. “Mother of God and our Mother, to your Immaculate Heart we solemnly entrust and consecrate ourselves, the Church and all humanity, especially Russia and Ukraine.
Pope Francis led the “Act of Consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary” in a service at St. Peter’s Basilica at the end of a Lenten penitential service. March 25 is the Feast of the Annunciation, which commemorates the visit of the angel Gabriel to Mary.“This is no magic formula but a spiritual act,” the pope said.
Pope Francis blesses an ambulance he is donating to the city of Lviv, which Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the Papal Almoner, is personally delivering to the Ukrainian city.
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