{"id":124401,"date":"2026-04-10T09:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/?p=124401"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:39:15","slug":"11-april-prayer-vigil-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/11-april-prayer-vigil-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"11 April: Prayer Vigil for Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124401?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"Download PDF\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-pdf-title\">PDF<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124401?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">PRINT<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe peace that Jesus gives us is not merely the silence of weapons, but the peace that touches and transforms the heart of each one of us! Let us allow ourselves to be transformed by the peace of Christ! Let us make heard the cry for peace that springs from our hearts!\u201d stated Pope Leo XIV during his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/leo-xiv\/en\/messages\/urbi\/documents\/20260405-urbi-et-orbi-pasqua.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Urbi et Orbi message<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, delivered on Easter Sunday from the central balcony of St Peter\u2019s Basilica. \u201c<\/span><b>For this reason, I invite everyone to join me in a prayer vigil for peace that we will celebrate here in Saint Peter\u2019s Basilica next Saturday, April 11<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Responding to this call from the Pope, <\/span><b>the <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgroma.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Union of Superiors General (USG)<\/b><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><b>invites religious communities to participate in large numbers in this moment of prayer, a sign of communion and hope for the world<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><b>The vigil offers an opportunity to join spiritually in the prayer of the universal Church, entrusting the gift of peace to the Lord<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d, continues the USG statement, encouraging religious in Rome, as well as all religious throughout the world, to join the prayer vigil which will be presided over by Pope Leo XIV himself \u2013 as reported by the Holy See Press Office \u2013 and <\/span><b>will take place in St Peter\u2019s Basilica next Saturday at 6.00 pm (Rome time)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The prayer service <\/span><b>will be open to <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><b>the participation of all the faithful<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@VaticanNewsEN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will also be broadcast via the Vatican News YouTube channel<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":124399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3386,3367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holy-see","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124402,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124401\/revisions\/124402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}