Manifesto for Letters to the World for Peace

“Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” (cf. Isaiah 2:4)

This project was born from an inner call: to write letters addressed to the whole world, as one lights small lamps in a restless night. They are neither political manifestos nor action programs, but words offered to the conscience, to the heart, to the breath.

Letters to the World for Peace unfolds over three liturgical years, until the Feast of Christ the King 2028. Each letter is rooted in the Word of God, crossed by the burning events of our time, and oriented towards one single horizon: the Peace that comes from beyond us and yet desires to pass through us.

We believe that words can become passages for grace, that poetry can reopen paths where the logic of force sees only dead ends, and that prophecy is not primarily the prediction of disasters, but the unveiling of a greater possibility of life.

These letters are not addressed only to believers, but to every person who refuses to surrender to the inevitability of violence. They do not speak in the name of any party, camp or ideology. They seek, through the fragility of human language, to let something of the Breath that gives life to all beings shine through.

Whoever reads these letters is invited:

to begin disarming his or her own heart,
to stand, humbly, on the side of mercy,
to become an artisan of peace wherever he or she is,
to believe that every gesture of justice and tenderness matters, even if no one sees it.

If these letters awaken a little more gentleness, courage, clarity and compassion, then the aim of this project will already be partly fulfilled.

Alain de Nazaire
Servant of the Breath and Witness to the Peace to Come