Approaching May 9 2025

by | Apr 15, 2025

This year, too, we want to consciously celebrate Europe Day. A fundamental expression of this is prayer, with which we entrust to God the continent's immense challenges, but also the hopes and concrete commitment to reconciliation and mutual acceptance between our peoples.
Mappamondo, mani supplicanti, candela accesa.

Thomas Roemer, a Lutheran pastor from Munich, suggests that every day we consider a word from the Gospel in which Jesus reassures us: ‘I am…’. And every day we entrust a group of European nations in particular.

As in previous years, we do this prayer according to an ancient tradition of Christianity. It is a novena, that is, a nine-day journey, from 30 April to 8 May.

Let us make this journey as a group, community, or even individually, but still united and trusting in the words of Jesus: ‘…if two of you come together on earth to ask anything, it will be granted to them by my Father in heaven. For wherever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them’. (Mt 18:19-20)

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Cornelia Koni Brand

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