Galway Peace Group
20th Annual Galway Peace Group
24 hour fast and day of prayer
Saturday 15th December 2007.
The Galway Peace Group 19th annual 24 hour fast and day of prayers for peace takes place in the Poor Clares convent, Nuns Island Galway on Saturday December 15th 2007.
It will commence with Mass at 8am followed by Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 4 pm when there will be a Special Peace Mass. The Celebrant will be Fr. Brian Edwards C.C., St. Joseph's Church, Galway.
People are invited to give one hour in adoration and also to take part in a 24 hour fast from 12 midnight on Friday to 12 midnight on Saturday 9th December for world peace.
All are welcome.
For further information and registration contact:
Florence Madden.
The
Aims of the Galway Peace Group are;
- For Peace and Reconciliation in Ireland and the whole World.
- To encourage friendship and understanding among all peoples.
- To show solidarity with all suffering humanity.
- To tell prisoners that they are prisoners no more, the love of God will set them free in their hearts.
- To encourage the youth of Ireland to be a shining exarnple to the whole world by their faith and good works.
- 12 hour fast on 1 st day of each month, pray for peace.
- Dedicate an hour each day of work, recreation, study etc, in prayer for peace; 12 midday to 1 pm.
Prayer before the hour:
'O my Jesus by your sufferings and death on the cross, grant us peace in Ireland, and in the whole world.'
During the hour:
'Dear Jesus, grant us peace.'
At the end of the hour:
'Thank you Jesus, Bless us and all souls with the love and merits of Thy Beloved Mother.'
Lord, Make me an instrument of Thy Peace
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, liqht;
And where there is sadness, joy.
Lord, Grant that I may seek rather
to comfort than to be comforted;
to understand than to be understood,
to love than to be loved:
For it is by giving that one receives,
by forgiving that one is forgiven
and by dying that one awakens to Eternal life.
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