CNA<\/a>).- Representatives of Judaism, Christianity and Islam said prayers from their respective religious communities at Sunday\u2019s historic \u201cInvocation for Peace\u201d at the Vatican, praying for peace in the Holy Land and throughout the Middle East.<\/p>\n\tThe meeting gathered in one place Pope Francis, Israeli President Shimon Peres, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and the Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I.<\/p>\n
\tThe June 8 meeting in the Vatican gardens featured prayers in Hebrew, Arabic and Italian.<\/p>\n
\tBelow are the official English texts of a prayer from each of the three faiths.<\/p>\n
\tJewish prayer from the Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) service, read in Hebrew:<\/em><\/p>\n\tYour servant David said before you: \u201cWho may discern errors? Cleanse me from hidden faults\u201d. Cleanse us, O Lord our God from all our transgressions, purify us from our impurity and cast pure water on us and purify us, as is written by Your prophets: \u201cI will cast clean water upon you, and you shall be cleansed from all your impurities and from all your contamination I will purify you.\u201d And it is said: \u201cTake words with you and return to the Lord; say to him, \u201cTake away all guilt; accept that which is good, and we will offer up the fruit of our lips.\u201d You are merciful, accepting those who turn back to You, and with regard to repentance You promised from the beginning, and with regard to repentance, our eyes look hopefully to You. And out of Your love or us, O Lord our God, who loved Israel Your people in Your mercy, and in Your compassion with which, You had compassion on the children of Your covenant, You granted us forgiveness of sin and the pardon of transgression and the atonement of iniquity.<\/p>\n
\tChristian prayer written by St. John Paul II, read in Italian:<\/em><\/p>\n\tLet us turn with trust to God our Father,
\n\twho is merciful and compassionate,
\n\tslow to anger, great in love and fidelity,
\n\tand ask him to accept the repentance of his people
\n\twho humbly confess their sins,
\n\tand to grant them mercy.
\n\tLet us pray that contemplating Jesus,
\n\tour Lord and our Peace,
\n\tChristians will be able to repent
\n\tof the words and attitudes
\n\tcaused by pride, by hatred,
\n\tby the desire to dominate others,
\n\tby enmity towards members of other religions
\n\tand towards the weakest groups in society,
\n\tsuch as immigrants and itinerants.
\n\tLet us pray for all those who have suffered offences
\n\tagainst their human dignity
\n\tand whose rights have been trampled.<\/p>\n
\tIslamic prayer, read in Arabic:<\/em><\/p>\n\tPraise be to God, who created the heavens and the earth, made darkness and light, brought everything out of nothing, created us as the best part of creation, formed us in the best of forms, bestowing on us hearing, sight, intelligence, and heart. Blessed be God, best of creators.<\/p>\n
\tOh God, to you all praise, O Lord, to you all praise, O Creator of the heavens and the earth, O You who know the unknown and the manifest, O Lord of everything and its sovereign, we testify that there is no god but You alone and You have no partner, we seek refuge in You from the evil in ourselves and the evil of Satan, his partners, his godlessness and his whispering, and we seek refuge in You from godlessness and want, and we seek refuge in You so that we do not bring evil upon ourselves or bring it upon anyone else.<\/p>\n
\tO God, to You all praise, much praise, good and blessed, we praise You for all the grace bestowed upon us, seen and unseen, in religion or in the world, for Your graces cannot be counted or calculated, and we ask You, our Lord, that they last forever, be preserved and blessed, and that they might help us to remember You, thank You and worship You better, until we worship You, remember You and thank You as You desire, and to You all praise, O Lord, as befits the splendor of Your face and the greatness of Your power.<\/p>\n
\tO God, You are all able and we are unable, You possess all and we have nothing, You know all and we know nothing, You know hidden things, we praise You, we thank You for all that You have showered upon us and all You have done so well for us in religion and in this world, to You praise, our Lord, in first things and in the hereafter, to You praise in good times and bad, to You praise until You are gratified and to You praise when You are satisfied, to You praise after satisfaction, there is no power and no strength but in You.<\/p>\n
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