Slavorum Apostoli §30

³⁰ "I nto your hands I commend ...". O great God, One in Trinity, I entrust to you the heritage of faith of the Slav nations; preserve and bless this work of yours! Remember, O Almighty Father, the moment when, in accordance with your will, the "fullness of time" arrived for these peoples and nations, and the holy Missionaries from Salonika faithfully fulfilled the command that your Son Jesus Christ had entrusted to his Apostles; following in their footsteps and in those of their successors, they brought into the lands inhabited by the Slavs the light of the Gospel, the Good News of salvation and, in their presence, bore testimony -that you are the Creator of man, that you are our Father and that in you we are all brethren; -that through the Son, your eternal Word, you have given existence to all things, and have called human beings to share in your life without end; -that you have so loved the world as to grant it the gift of your only begotten Son, who for us men and for our salvation, came down from heaven and by the power of the Holy Spirit became incarnate in the womb of the Virgin Mary and was made man; -and that finally you have sent the Spirit of power and consolation so that every human being, redeemed by Christ, may in him receive the dignity of a child and become a co-heir of the unfailing promises which you have made to humanity! Your plan of creation, O Father, culminating in the Redemption, touches the living man and embraces his entire life and the history of all peoples. Grant, O Father, what the whole Church today implores from you and grant also that the people and the nations which, thanks to the apostolic mission of the holy Brothers from Salonika, have known and accepted you, the true God, and through Baptism have entered into the holy community of your children, may still continue, without hindrance, to accept with enthusiasm and trust this evangelical programme and continue to realize all their human possibilities on the foundation of their teachings! -May they follow, in conformity with their own conscience, the voice of your call along the paths shown to them for the first time eleven centuries ago! -May their membership of the Kingdom of your Son never be considered by anyone to be contrary to the good of their earthly homeland! -May they render to you due praise in private and in public life! -May they live in truth, charity, justice and in the enjoyment of the messianic peace which enfolds human hearts, communities, the earth and the entire universe! -Aware of their dignity as human beings and children of God, may they have the strength to overcome all hatred and to conquer evil with good! But also grant to the whole of Europe, O Most Holy Trinity, that through the intercession of the two holy Brothers it may feel ever more strongly the need for religious and Christian unity and for a brotherly communion of all its peoples, so that when incomprehension and mutual distrust have been overcome and when ideological conflicts have been conquered in the common awareness of the truth, it may be for the whole world an example of just and peaceful coexistence in mutual respect and inviolate liberty.