Prayer for Jewish People

22-01-2009 / SW

Hear our prayers for the Jewish People, whom you still consider dear because of their forefathers.

Awaken in them a constant and ever-more-vital desire to fathom Your truth and Your love.

Assist them, so that their search for peace and justice may reveal to the world the power of Your blessing.

Support them, so that they may know love and respect from those who still do not understand the extent of their sufferings, and from those who out of concern and solidarity do share their pain of the wounds that have been inflicted on them.

Remember about the new generations, about young people and children, so that they understand that your plan of redemption includes all humanity and that You are the beginning and the ultimate goal for all peoples.

Amen

Hebrew version

The prayer was written in response to a request by Mr. Steven Goldstein, the son of Jewish parents from Krakow. Mr. Goldstein also sponsored the printing of one million pictures containing the prayer and a photograph taken during the meeting between John Paul II and Rabbi Elio Toaf in the Rome synagogue. Half of the print run was distributed on the Day of Judaism and the other half awaits the Pope’s pilgrimage to his native land.