Prayer for Justice

God grant that violence be overcome by the power of love,

that opposition give way to reconciliation

and that the desire to oppress be transformed

into the desire for forgiveness, justice and peace…

May peace be in our hearts

so that they are open to the action of God’s grace…

May all members of the family community,

especially children, the elderly, the weakest,

feel the warmth of this feast,

and may it extend subsequently to all the days in the year. Amen.

Pope Benedict XVI