Prayer is the bond which most effectively unites us. It is through prayer that believers meet one another at a level where inequalities, misunderstandings, bitterness, and hostility are overcome, namely before God, the Lord and Father of all. Prayer, as the authentic expression of a right relationship with God and with others, is already a positive contribution to peace. Possible Peace is not a utopia, nor an inaccessible ideal, nor an unrealizable dream. War is not an inevitable calamity.
Peace is possible.
But man can and he must make the force of reason prevail over the reasons of force . And since peace, entrusted to the responsibility of men and women, remains even then a gift of God, it must also express itself in prayer to Him who holds the destinies of all peoples in His hands.