Novenas - Totus2us

Day 7, Novena for Europe - Blessed John Paul II's apostolic exhortation, Ecclesia in Europa: "Church in Europe, welcome every day with renewed freshness the gift of charity which your Lord offers to you and enables you to accept. Learn from him the content and the measure of love. Be the Church of the Beatitudes, constantly conformed to Christ. Free from all forms of hindrance and dependency, be poor yourself and a friend to the poor, welcoming every person and attentive to all forms of poverty, both old and new. Continuously purified by the Father's goodness, see in the attitude of Christ, who always defended the truth yet still showed mercy towards sinners, the supreme norm of all your actions. In Jesus, at whose birth peace was proclaimed, in him whose death broke down the walls of enmity and brought true peace, be a builder of peace. Encourage your sons and daughters to allow their hearts to be purified of all hostility, selfishness and partisanship, and to favour at all times mutual dialogue and respect.