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Sisters Elaine, Jeanette and Mairead joined hundreds of other religious, laity and children for the annual Peace March on New Year’s Day. The January 1 activity started at the Largo Giovanni XXIII where the marchers listened to representatives of lay, religious and children as they expressed their hopes for peace.   After the talks, the group crossed Via Conciliazione and marched towards St. Peter’s Square where they joined thousands of pilgrims to listen to the Pope’s message on the 41st World Day of Peace.    

    Sisters Jeanette and Elaine brave the cold 
   to march for peace 

In his message, delivered before the recitation of the Angelus, the Holy Father underscored the importance of the human family as a community of peace. He said:

"At the beginning of a New Year, I wish to send my fervent good wishes for peace, together with a heartfelt message of hope to men and women throughout the world. I do so by offering for our common reflection the theme which I have placed at the beginning of this message. It is one which I consider particularly important: the human family, a community of peace. The first form of communion between persons is that born of the love of a man and a woman who decide to enter a stable union in order to build together a new family. But the peoples of the earth, too, are called to build relationships of solidarity and cooperation among themselves, as befits members of the one human family: “All peoples”—as the Second Vatican Council declared—“are one community and have one origin, because God caused the whole human race to dwell on the face of the earth (cf. Acts 17:26); they also have one final end, God”.

Marchers joined pilgrims in St Peter’s Square to hear the Pope’s message