O Mary, Mother of God and our Mother, in this time of trial we turn to you.You never cease to guide us to Jesus, the Prince of Peace.
Yet we have strayed from that path of peace.
We have forgotten the lesson learned from the tragedies of the last century,
the sacrifice of the millions who fell in two world wars.
We grew sick with greed, we thought only of our own nations and their interests,
We chose to ignore God,
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