Prayers for Peace

Prayer for Peace

Lord Jesus Christ,
Na You be the true King of peace.
Na only for You we fit find freedom.

Abeg, free our world from conflict.
Bring unity to nations wey trouble dey.
Make Your glorious peace rule for every heart.

Drive away all darkness and evil.
Protect the dignity of every human life.
Replace hatred with Your love.

Give wisdom to world leaders.
Free dem from ambition wey dey seek only their own gain.
Put an end to all violence and war.

Glorious Virgin Mary,
Saint Michael the Archangel,
Every angel and saint:
Abeg, pray for peace.
Pray make unity dey among nations.
Pray make unity dey among all people.
Pray for people wey danger fit affect pass.
Pray for people wey dey suffer.
Pray for people wey dey fear.
Pray for people wey need help pass.
Pray for all of us.

Jesus, Son of the Living God, have mercy on us.
Jesus, hear our prayers.
Jesus, na You I trust.

Amen.

Prayer for Peace—St. John Paul II

Lord Jesus Christ, wey dem dey call Prince of Peace, wey You Yourself be our peace and reconciliation, wey don talk many times say, “Make peace dey with una” – abeg, give us peace.

Make all men and women become witnesses to truth, justice and love for one another as brothers and sisters. Drive away from their hearts anything wey fit put peace for danger. Give our rulers light to understand, so dem fit make sure say this great gift of peace dey and protect am.

Make all peoples for earth become like brothers and sisters.

Make the peace wey we dey long for blossom and rule over all of us always. Amen.

Prayer for peace wey Pope Francis pray for the general audience wey e dey hold every week, on March 16, 2022

Na Archbishop Domenico Battaglia of Naples write am
Even though dem write am because of the war for Ukraine, abeg, pray also make peace dey throughout the world.

Forgive us for the war, Lord.

Lord Jesus, Son of God, have mercy on us sinners.

Lord Jesus, wey dem born under bombs for Kyiv, have mercy on us.

Lord Jesus, wey die for the arms of one mother for Kharkiv, have mercy on us.

Lord Jesus, wey dey inside the people wey be 20 years old wey dem send go war front, have mercy on us.

Lord Jesus, wey still dey see hands wey carry weapons under the shadow of the cross, forgive us, Lord.

Forgive us if we no dey satisfied with the nails wey we take pierce Your hand, and we still dey drink from the blood of the dead wey weapons tear to pieces.

Forgive us if these hands wey You create to protect don turn to instruments of death.

Forgive us, Lord, if we still dey kill our brother. Forgive us, Lord, if we still dey kill our brother, if we still dey behave like Cain, dey take stones from our field to kill Abel.

Forgive us if we dey go to any length to make cruel treatment look right, if, inside our pain, we dey claim say the cruel things we dey do dey right. Forgive us for the war, Lord.

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, we dey beg You with all our heart: stop the hand of Cain, give light to our conscience, no let our own will happen, no leave us to wetin we dey do by ourselves. Stop us, Lord, stop us, and when You don stop the hand of Cain, take care of am too. Na our brother e be.

O Lord, stop the violence. Stop us, Lord.

Amen.

Na Catholic News Service translate am.

Prayer for Peace—Pope Francis

Lord God of peace, hear our prayer!

We don try plenty times, for plenty years, to settle our conflicts with our own power and with di force of our weapons. We don pass through plenty times of hostility and darkness; plenty blood don pour; plenty lives don scatter; plenty hopes don enter ground… But all our efforts no yield fruit.

Now, Lord, come help us! Give us peace, teach us peace; guide our steps for di way of peace. Open our eyes and our heart, and give us courage to talk say: “War no go ever happen again!”; “With war, everything dey lost”. Put courage for our heart so we go take real steps to bring peace.

Lord, God of Abraham, God of di Prophets, God of Love, na You create us, and You dey call us to live as brothers and sisters. Give us strength every day to be instruments of peace; help us see everybody wey we meet as our brother or sister. Help us take to heart di plea of our citizens wey dey beg us to turn our weapons of war into tools for peace, our fear into firm trust, and our quarrel into forgiveness.

Keep di fire of hope alive inside us, so dat with patience and perseverance, we go choose to talk with one another and reconcile. For dis way, make peace win at last, and make di words “division”, “hatred” and “war” comot from di heart of every man and woman. Lord, remove di violence from our tongue and our hands. Make our heart and mind new again, so dat di word wey go always bring us together go be “brother”, and di way we dey live go always be di way of: Shalom, Peace, Salaam!

Amen.