Precisely because of their faith, believers are called as individuals and as a body to be messengers and artisans of peace. Like others and even more than others, they are called to seek with humility and perseverance appropriate responses to the yearnings for security and freedom, solidarity and sharing, which are common to everyone in this world, which as it were has become smaller. A commitment to peace of course concerns every person of good will . This divine promise fills us with the hope, indeed the certainty of divine hope, that peace is possible, because nothing is impossible with God gift, and for us Christians it is a precious gift of the risen Lord . I wish to reaffirm the need for intense, humble, confident, and persevering prayer, if the world is finally to become a dwelling place of peace.
Prayer is par excellence the power needed to implore that peace and obtain it.
It gives courage and support to all who love this good and desire to promote it in accordance with their own possibilities and in the various situations in which they live. 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.