“Let us fervently implore the Virgin Mary tonight to drive wars away from our world. May she bring an end to bloodshed, atrocities, violence, and our inhumanity. Her virtue and intercession can restrain human wickedness, for she was deemed worthy by God to take an active part in the salvation of us all. Today, the Theotokos becomes the new earth and the new heaven, from which a new world arises—a world of beauty, virtue, and salvation.
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“the Virgin Mary is our help before God and only her name gladdens the soul. But also all heaven and all earth rejoice with her love. Wondrous and incomprehensible miracle. She lives in the heavens and sees unceasingly the glory of God, but she does not forget us poor, and embraces with her mercy all the earth and all the peoples
“The Patriarch noted that, amid the wars, conflicts, and human suffering confronting the world, the prayers of the faithful turn towards the Most Holy Theotokos, the Mother of all peoples.
“the Mother of God as the intercessor of the faithful before God
“The Mother of God is the protector of families, children, mothers, parents, virgins, and all the faithful, both men and women. In a special way, she is the protector of the poor, widows, orphans, and those whom no one loves anymore
“The Mother of God is the protector of families, children, mothers, parents in general, virgins, all the faithful, men and women, and in a special way she is the protector of the poor, widows, orphans and those whom no one loves any longer,
“As the Mother of the Lord and the Mother of all the faithful, through her love and intercessions she is always close to every human being
“The new creation bestowed upon us by the risen Lord allows no room for hatred and enmity, only love, love without limits, compassion and understanding. By this shall all know that we are true disciples of the risen one: if we have love for one another and for all people. We must always proclaim peace and brotherhood among peoples and nations, not war, even if we baptize it as ‘holy’ to please an authoritarian secular power. There has never been, nor will there ever be, a ‘holy war’! Holiness and war are, by their very nature, mutually incompatible concepts incapable of coexisting in any form!
“he also encouraged the faithful to pray to the Theotokos with trust, confident that she knows human suffering and understands their concerns
