Find all of the World Peace Day Messages here
(Updated August 2026)
Peace Sunday 2025 – Forgive us our trespasses
Peace Sunday 2025: Children’s Activities and Prayers
Peace Sunday 2025: Children’s Liturgy
Peace Sunday 2025: Children’s Liturgy Worksheet
Peace Sunday 2025: Form time resource for secondary schools
Peace Sunday 2024 – AI and Peace
Pope Francis Message for World Day of Peace 2024
Peace Sunday 2024 – Letter to Parishes from Archbishop Malcolm
Peace Sunday 2024 – Liturgy Booklet
Peace Sunday 2024 – Alternative Homily
Peace Sunday 2024 – Short Talk
Peace Sunday 2024 – Resources for Children
Peace Sunday 2024 – Children’s Liturgy
Peace Sunday 2024 – Childrens’ Liturgy Worksheet
Peace Sunday 2024 – Secondary School Form Time Resource
Peace Sunday 2024 – Justpeace and Poster
Peace Sunday 2023 – No one can be saved alone. Combatting Covid-19 together, embarking together on paths of peace
Justpeace with poster and hints on how to promote peace
Prayer Card with words of Pope Francis
Peace Sunday 2022 – Dialogue between Generations, Education and Work: Tools for Building Lasting Peace
Justpeace with poster and hints on how to promote Peace
2022 Prayer Card with words of Pope Francis
Sunday Liturgy booklet with suggested penitential prayer, homily reflections and bidding prayers
Podcast: Fr Rob Esdaile reflects on Pope Francis’ World Peace Day Message (6-7 minutes)
Text of Fr Esdaile’s podcast.
Script for a 2-minute parish talk about Peace Sunday and Pax Christi prepared by Anne Dodd.
Family Table Activity – how to use placemat designs and a paper peace cube
Tree of Peace place mat to colour in
Cardinal Newman School, Coventry Pray for Peace by Shadow and Cardinal Newman students
Peace Sunday 2021: A Culture of Care as a Path to Peace
2021 National Peace Sunday online event
Quotations from the 2021 World Peace Day Message
Flyer with ideas for parishes, schools, individuals, families, groups
Justpeace with Peace Sunday poster
NJPN Column in The Universe for Peace Sunday
Letter to parish priests from Archbishop Malcolm McMahon, OP, President of Pax Christi England & Wales
Podcast – short recorded talk by Fr Rob Esdaile
Script for short talk about the Peace Sunday theme and Pax Christi
Celebrate peace – A children’s liturgy resource to celebrate the UN Treaty on the prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which came into force on 22nd January, 2021
Powerpoint for schools
Worksheet for schools
Colour and Shape children’s liturgy and accompanying worksheet
