Peace Sunday is celebrated on the second Sunday in Ordinary Time. In 2025, Peace Sunday falls on Sunday, 19th January. Since its establishment in 1967 by Pope St Paul VI, the Popes have taken the World Day of Peace on the 1st January as an opportunity to offer a message on peace related topics. Every year, with the support of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference, England and Wales, Peace Sunday is promoted on the second Sunday in Ordinary Time as a way of observing the World Day of Peace and promoting the Pope’s message for that year. The theme this year is ‘Forgive us our trespasses: Grant us your peace’. The message speaks of how we must listen to the ‘pleas of an endangered humanity’, how the year of Jubilee inspires us to seek the liberating justice of God in our world and how by ‘opening our hearts to our brothers and sisters, we will restore God’s justice on earth’ and ‘move forward to achieve the goal of peace’. May the Lord help us to be instruments of peace and reconciliation in our families and our divided and conflicted World🙏🏽
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PEACE SUNDAY 2025 PRAYER
God of mercy and compassion, where I have not loved my neighbour as I love myself,or done to others what I would have them do to me, held grudges, or tried to get even after I have been hurt: Father forgive.
Grant us your peace, that I might know peace within myself, seek to be a peacemaker in my daily life, grow in my conviction that we are all made in your image, love those I find it hard to love, forgive injuries and refuse to retaliate, and follow in the footsteps of the nonviolent Jesus. Amen 🙏🏽