Pope John Paul II - Prayer for the Armenian Victims - 26 September 2001 

Look upon the people of this land who put their trust in You so long ago, who 
have passed through the great tribulation and never failed in their faithfulness to 
You. Wipe away every tear from their eyes and grant that their agony in the 
twentieth century will yield a harvest of life that endures forever. 

We are appalled by the terrible violence done to the Armenian people, and 
dismayed that the world still knows such inhumanity. But renewing our hope in 
Your promise, we implore, O Lord, rest for the dead in the peace which knows no 
end, and the healing of still open wounds through the power of Your love. Our 
soul is longing for You, Lord, more than the watchman for daybreak, as we wait 
for the fullness of redemption won on the Cross, for the light of Easter which is 
the dawn of invincible life, for the glory of the new Jerusalem where death shall 
be no more. O Judge of the living and the dead, have mercy on us all!