Pope Francis' Prayer For Peace - June 4, 2014
Pope Francis' Prayer For Peace - June 4, 2014:
Lord God of peace, hear our prayer!
We have tried so many times and over so many years to resolve our conflicts by our own powers and by the force of our arms. How many moments of hostility and darkness have we experienced; how much blood has been shed; how many lives have been shattered; how many hopes have been buried....But our efforts have been in vain.
Now, Lord, come to our aid! Grant us peace, teach us peace; guide our steps in the way of peace. Open our eyes and our hearts, and give us the courage to say: "Never again war!"; "With war everything is lost." Instill in our hearts the courage to take concrete steps to achieve peace.
Lord, God of Abraham, God of the Prophets, God of Love, you created us and you call us to live as brothers and sisters. Give us the strength daily to be instruments of peace; enable us to see everyone who crosses our path as our brother or sister. Make us sensitive to the plea of our citizens who entreat us to turn our weapons of war into implements of peace, our trepidation into confident trust, and our quarreling into forgiveness.
Keep alive within us the flame of hope, so that with patience and perseverance we may opt for dialogue and reconciliation. In this way may peace triumph at last, and may the words "division," "hatred" and "war" be banished from the heart of every man and woman. Lord, defuse the violence of our tongues and our hands. Renew our hearts and minds, so that the word which always brings us together will be "brother," and our way of life will always be that of: Shalom, Peace, Salaam! Amen.
Pope Francis born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on 17 December 1936 is the 266th and current Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. Francis is the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first pope from outside Europe since the Syrian Gregory III, who reigned in the 8th century.
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This is not an abuse since this is word for word the prayer of the Pope. Would you have me re-arrange those words? This flag is insane! This has been apparently been reported by someone who is anti-pope or anti-catholic. Plagiarism is when we use other peoples work without giving them credit for it. DUH!
If you post something on steemit that is not your material.
This was clearly plagiarism to me because you didn't decline rewards. You didn't not give exact location that you copied the Popes words from. Nor did you show that the Vatican gave you permission to use them.
Steemit is for posting your own content, commenting, discussing others point of view with a small amount of quotes sources stated.
If you just want to post others content and earn rewards from that, you will be flagged.
Maybe not plagiarism, but definitely copy/paste. You know...we'd rather you tell us why the prayer is significant.
Nobody wants to pay someone for simply copying/pasting stuff on the internet.