"In this hour humanity, exhausted and distraught, is under the cross with you".
"The Ukrainian people and the Russian people, who venerate you with love, have recourse to you, while your Heart beats for them and for all the peoples killed by war, hunger, injustice and misery".
It is the act of consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Heart of Mary pronounced by the Pope: "We therefore, Mother of God and ours, solemnly entrust and consecrate ourselves, the Church and all humanity to your Immaculate Heart, especially Russia and Ukraine "," let the war cease, provide the world with peace ".
"In these days, news and images of death continue to enter our homes, while bombs destroy the homes of many of our unarmed Ukrainian brothers and sisters. The brutal war, which has struck many and causes everyone to suffer, provokes in everyone fear and dismay ", said the Pope in the homily of the penitential celebration.
"We feel a sense of helplessness and inadequacy inside".
"We need the presence of God, the certainty of divine forgiveness, the only one who cancels evil, defuses rancor, restores peace to the heart. Let us return to God, let us return to his forgiveness".
"To Mary, Mother of the Redeemer, we entrust the cry for peace of the populations oppressed by war and violence, so that the courage of dialogue and reconciliation prevail over the temptations of revenge, of arrogance, of corruption", writes the Pope in a tweet in the day on which the Church celebrates the Annunciation and a few hours from the celebration in which it will consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
