Dear Zoom Prayer Meeting members,
I am sharing with you Mr. Takahashi’s poem for peace in Russia & Ukraine.
Infinite peace,
Kinuko Hamaya
May peace be in Russia & Ukraine
By Hideo Takahashi
May peace prevail on Earth
May peace be in Russia
May peace be in Ukraine
May peace be in Japan
May our missions be accomplished
We thank you Goi Sensei, Guardian Deities and Guardian Spirits
I ask all the mothers in Russia
Not to allow your sons to die in battle fields
I ask all the mothers in Ukraine
Not to allow your sons to die in battle fields
In order not to allow your sons and husbands to die in battle fields
Please pray aloud
May peace prevail on Earth
May peace be in Russia
May peace be in Ukraine
If we blindly follow national leaders
Who do not hesitate to send their country’s young people into the battle fields
Wars will break out everywhere and Earth will collapse
Farmlands will be overrun by tanks
Houses will be destroyed by bazookas and rocket bombs
And people will be killed and deprived of their shelters
War brings anything good to neither the winner nor the loser
It simply destroys everything
And stains the earth with blood
Neither men nor women should be killed in a war
Neither children nor the aged should be killed in a war
Mothers in Russia and Ukraine
Please go to churches
Ring the bells
And pray for peace
Please pray for peace of your country and your neighboring countries
We Japanese will also pray together with you
Because we have learned more than enough about the misery of war
Girls in Russia and Ukraine
I ask you not to allow your sweethearts to die in battle fields
Instead of shouting “Kill the enemy”
Please shout, “Peace, peace”
Please cast aside all the hatred and resentment
And simply pray to Jesus and Mary
So that people can have peace and happiness
People called religious leaders
Please come out of your churches and monasteries
Stand before people, display the cross
And march manifesting the power of prayer
“There is no act greater than offering your life for your friend”
People called religious leaders
Please go out of your churches and monasteries
Highly display the cross
And offer your life to stop the war
“Blessed are the ones who bring peace. They will be praised as divine children”
Inscribe these words of Jesus in your hearts and stand up
Soldiers and commanders, you are both believers in Jesus and Mary
So together with Jesus and Mary
Please display the cross, stand before people
And march reciting
“May peace be in Russia
May peace be in Ukraine”
They will all follow you crying
Да пребудет мир в России
May peace be in Russia
Хай буде мир в Україні
May peace be in Ukraine
(February 14, 2022)
[Translated by Kinuko Hamaya & edited by Pamela Beasley]