God our Father,
when enemies reach out to one another, when they recognise that they belong to the same race,
to the same land, it is your Spirit at work.
When mistrust is healed by the warmth of tenderness, when harshness gives way to gentleness
and mercy fills the heart of the violent, it is your Spirit at work.
We give you thanks for this, Father.
And we join our voices with those of all the victims, all the torn families,
all the peoples at war, to cry out to you:
Save the humanity within us; put an end to fear and to the spiral of hatred.
Disarm them, disarm us through Jesus, the Crucified and Risen One, the Living One,
with us for all time and beyond.