This week, Sacred Heart Church, Oakland, CA will be remembering the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan and the over 103 countries involved in some way in a war on Earth.

 

We will stand with Pope Leo XIV’s conviction that “Peace is built through disarmament, not nuclear weapons.” We will join the people and Oblates in Japan and hold close these “Ten Days of Prayer,” which invites us to reflect on our own responsibility for peace and to take action for peace especially today as we live in a fragile world.

 

On August 9, Pax Christi North California will be joining us for liturgy at a “Mass of Memory and Mourning and a Call to Conscience.” We will gather for a video introduction and then make lanterns, which we will hang in our church’s Hiroshima Peace Garden.

 

“May God guide us on paths of non-violence. May believers and people of good will never stop working as builders of peace. May every person make peace on his or her life’s cause.” (Vatican, 2026, June 19)

 

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