World Day of Peace 2020

Peace as a Journey of Hope: Dialogue, Reconciliation and Ecological Conversion

Pope Saint Paul VI instituted the World Day of Peace in 1968. The Church celebrates it each year on 1 January and the Pope issues a special World Day of Peace Message for the occasion.  The theme for the World Day of Peace Message 2020 is Peace as a Journey of Hope: Dialogue, Reconciliation and Ecological Conversion.

The full text of the Message is available here directly from the Vatican website.

The Office for Social Justice has published a Discussion Guide to accompany the Message which is available here.

The Pope’s Prayer Intention as mentioned in this video is that all people of goodwill may promote peace and justice in the world.

You can find Pope Francis’ World Day of Peace Messages here.