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13/04/2026

Bread for Today stands in unwavering support of Pope Leo XIV and invites our prayer community, fellow Catholics, and all people of good faith to lift up in prayer all those who speak peace into a world gripped by conflict and fear.

Trump called Pope Leo XIV weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy. Here's what three senior American cardinals said on 60 Minutes that triggered his Truth Social meltdown.

12/04/2026

Pope Leo XIV delivered this homily during a prayer vigil for peace on the evening of April 11. His words carried urgency as a moral call to a world he described as severely destabilised, where even God’s name is being dragged into discourses of death.

Pope Leo XIV calls for peace, rejecting war, power, and violence, and urging a return to prayer, encounter, and the slow work of reconciliation.

11/04/2026

Join our prayer community, Bread 4 Today , as we unite with Pope Leo XIV’s Prayer Vigil for Peace this Saturday, April 11.

Guided by meditations from the early Church Fathers, including St Augustine of Hippo, the vigil will bring together faithful from across the world, each lighting candles from the Lamp of Peace in Assisi, a sign of hope shared across continents.

Come and be part of this moment of prayer for peace.

10/04/2026

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. - Thomas Merton
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09/04/2026

Full homily online, learn more at: https://www.commonhome.tv/feature/sunday-homilies-from-common-home-tv/

09/04/2026

09/04/2026

O sacred mystery you whom we call by many words yet cannot contain in any of them, draw us past our false selves, past the walls of certainty, into that silent center where we have always been one.

Teach us to say yes to one another. Not a yes that erases difference, but one that recognises, on an ordinary street corner, that we were never truly separate.

From that still place within, send us back into the world with open hands.

The following is a transcript of Cardinal Bychko's talk to the Interfaith Network (IFN), City of Greater Dandenong, titled 'Building Bridges and Unity through Interfaith Dialogue and Encounters.'

08/04/2026

While a ceasefire has been declared in Iran, no such peace exists in Lebanon, where Israeli airstrikes continue across the country, including in densely populated areas, alongside ground operations in the south.

We pray for the people of Lebanon. We pray for peace.

At a time when Lebanon and the wider region are again gripped by war, a sign of hope has risen in time for Easter.

One of the largest monuments of Christ in the Middle East has been erected on Jabal Al-Salib, the "Mount of the Cross", overlooking the town of Al Qaa in the Bekaa Valley, near the Syrian border.

A community once targeted by ISIS now faces renewed conflict, with Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon and troops in the south.

This statue reminds us that fear cannot erase faith, and that the desire for lasting peace is not extinguished.

08/04/2026

We see two worlds at once.
One lifted by colour, drifting in wonder.
Another weighed down by dust, running through ruin.

The same sky holds both.

Forgive us for how easily we live in one
and forget the other.
For how comfort can float above suffering
without ever touching it.

You are not divided.
You are present in the joy of flight
and in the cries rising from the ground.

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06/04/2026

Prayer of remembrance for the Rwanda genocide 🇷🇼

Today, we remember the 800,000 people who were massacred, the 50,000 women who were widowed and the tens of thousands of children who were orphaned in the Rwanda Genocide.

May the memory of conflict strengthen our efforts for peace;
May the memory of those who died inspire our service to the living;
May the memory of past destruction move us to build for the future;
O God of Peace, O Companion of our souls,
O Builder of Love and Justice in this world.

Lord, we commit our time, our energy, our talents, our gifts, even our limitations, failures and very selves to the cause of justice, peace and human development.

We join our lives with those who support the struggle for life. Amen.

Prayer via CAFOD

06/04/2026

On Easter Sunday, the Artemis II crew sent a powerful Easter message back to Earth.