26. August 2025

Lord, listen to the babies crying! / They were ripped from their mother’s arms, / pulled off their father’s laps / and locked up with strangers - / as a warning, as a weapon of war. // Lord, listen to those babies. / Jesus showed us your heart for children. / He told us that if any of us put a stumbling block / before one of these little ones, / we might as well have a great millstone / fastened around our necks / and be drowned in the depths of the sea. / That’s what he said. // Lord, listen! / Yes, I’m listening, too. / I won’t shut my ears. // There are babies in my life, / babies at the borders of Europe. / Lord…