A Prayer for the peace of Bolivia

Holy Father, Lord of life and history,
we make ours the words of your son Jesus:
"My peace I leave with you, my peace I give you."

With an open and grateful heart
we invoke you today in this Bolivian land
blessed with every kind of material and spiritual good

Disposses our spirit of hate, of violence,
of resentment and of division between brothers.

Help us to surpass fear and mistrust,
to cure the wounds of our past,
to surpass our differences and unkindnesses,
to overcome the errors and injustices against
the most poor and marginalized.

Concede to us the grace of your forgiveness
with the end that we too
will be able to forgive one another
and together construct a better Bolivia
via roads of reconciliation, of truth,
of justice, of fraternity and of peace.

...We place in your hands our patria
so that in her a lasting peace might reign.

This prayer was taken from the Catholic "Conferencia Episcopal de Bolivia"