Ιράκ: Η προσευχή του Πάπα για τους γιους και τις κόρες του Αβραάμ....

<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1f-3ZTO8etskfsFZAwNS4fWcokokdEzuHXhupLQRPN_9Rb7akQS8VBW-QSCS2Qe5Cz1x3r8WPsuZipf48Q4OVY9NVgkIdOZCmxycnOYO-2f08_q0AvysYqp9pNUc_zhzC7Va7k6qi/s1000/900.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1f-3ZTO8etskfsFZAwNS4fWcokokdEzuHXhupLQRPN_9Rb7akQS8VBW-QSCS2Qe5Cz1x3r8WPsuZipf48Q4OVY9NVgkIdOZCmxycnOYO-2f08_q0AvysYqp9pNUc_zhzC7Va7k6qi/w640-h360/900.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /><span face=""Museo Sans Cyrl", Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-size: 16px;">Ο Πάπας Φραγκίσκος ταξίδεψε νότια από τη Βαγδάτη στην αρχαία πόλη Ουρ για να πραγματοποιήσει μια ιστορική διαθρησκευτική συνάντηση το Σάββατο, τη δεύτερη ημέρα της αποστολικής του επίσκεψης στο Ιράκ.</span><p></p><p><span face=""Museo Sans Cyrl", Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p><div class="article__subTitle" itemprop="description" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #646464; font-family: "Museo Sans Cyrl", Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px 30px; width: 748px;">Joined by Muslims, Jews, representatives of different Christian Churches and other Iraqi religious minorities in the Iraqi city of Ur, Pope Francis prays for reconciliation, peace and the strength to rebuild the ravaged nation.</div><div class="title__separator" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(240, 240, 240); box-sizing: border-box; color: #373737; font-family: "Museo Sans Cyrl", Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 30px 25px; padding: 0px;"></div><div class="article__text" itemprop="articleBody" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Museo Sans Cyrl", Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px 30px; position: relative; width: 748px;"><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #373737; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">By Linda Bordoni    </span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #373737; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 0px;">Pope Francis travelled south from Baghdad to the ancient city of Ur to hold an historic interreligious meeting on Saturday, the second day of his Apostolic visit to Iraq.<br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #373737; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 0px;">The set-up was stark, but poignant: a simple, tent-like structure, with white drapes to protect participants from the sun, was set up next to Abraham’s house. In the background, the incredibly well-preserved remains of a 4,000-year-old Sumerian temple with adjacent residential complex and palaces known as the Great Ziggurat of Ur.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #373737; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 0px;">After the meeting, the Pope gathered in prayer together Muslims, Jews, representatives of Iraq’s Christian Churches, and members of Iraqi religious minorities, including the Yazidis and Sabaeans, who together invoked the Lord for peace, reconciliation and the strength to rebuild the conflict-ravaged nation.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #373737; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This is their prayer:</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #373737; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 0px;"><i style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">          Almighty God, our Creator, you love our human family and every work of your hands: </i></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #373737; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 0px;"><i style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">         As children of Abraham, Jews, Christians and Muslims, together with other believers and all persons of good will, we thank you for having given us Abraham, a distinguished son of this noble and beloved country, to be our common father in faith.</i></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #373737; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 0px;"><i style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">         We thank you for his example as a man of faith, who obeyed you completely, left behind his family, his tribe and his native land, and set out for a land that he knew not.</i></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #373737; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 0px;"><i style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">         We thank you too, for the example of courage, resilience, strength of spirit, generosity and hospitality set for us by our common father in faith.</i></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #373737; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 0px;"><i style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">         We thank you in a special way for his heroic faith, shown by his readiness even to sacrifice his son in obedience to your command.  We know that this was an extreme test, yet one from which he emerged victorious, since he trusted unreservedly in you, who are merciful and always offer the possibility of beginning anew.</i></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #373737; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 0px;"><i style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">         We thank you because, in blessing our father Abraham, you made him a blessing for all peoples.</i></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #373737; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 0px;"><i style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">         We ask you, the God of our father Abraham and our God, to grant us a strong faith, a faith that abounds in good works, a faith that opens our hearts to you and to all our brothers and sisters; and a boundless hope capable of discerning in every situation your fidelity to your promises.</i></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #373737; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 0px;"><i style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">         Make each of us a witness of your loving care for all, particularly refugees and the displaced, widows and orphans, the poor and the infirm.</i></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #373737; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 0px;"><i style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">         Open our hearts to mutual forgiveness and in this way make us instruments of reconciliation, builders of a more just and fraternal society.</i></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #373737; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 0px;"><i style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">         Welcome into your abode of peace and light all those who have died, particularly the victims of violence and war.</i></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #373737; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 0px;"><i style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">         Assist the authorities in the effort to seek and find the victims of kidnapping and in a special way to protect women and children.</i></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #373737; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 0px;"><i style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">         Help us to care for the earth, our common home, which in your goodness and generosity you have given to all of us.</i></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #373737; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 0px;"><i style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">         Guide our hands in the work of rebuilding this country, and grant us the strength needed to help those forced to leave behind their homes and lands, enabling them to return in security and dignity, and to embark upon a new, serene and prosperous life.  Amen.</i></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #373737; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 0px;"><i style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></i></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 0px; text-align: right;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2021-03/pope-francis-prayer-interreligious-ur-abraham.html?fbclid=IwAR2hr-Ws22n45oRDZaxb8rVFwuX4lVKtFXTzfc1JxfhR__1jHmVNjd-VjKE" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">ΠΗΓΗ</span></b></a></span></p></div>

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