by Michael McG | May 5, 2021 | Pope's Prayer Intention, Pope Francis
This month, the Holy Father invites us to pray with him “that those in charge of finance will work with governments to regulate the financial sphere and protect citizens from its danger”. Father David Stewart SJ, of the national office of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer...
by Michael McG | Apr 8, 2021 | Pope Francis, Pope's Prayer Intention
Pope Francis is asking us all to join him in praying during April “for those who risk their lives while fighting for fundamental rights under dictatorship, authoritarian regimes and even in democracies in crisis”. The national office of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer...
by Michael McG | Mar 1, 2021 | Pope Francis, Pope's Prayer Intention
Father David Stewart SJ introduces the theme of the Holy Father’s Prayer Intention for March, the Sacrament of Reconciliation. TASTE GOD’S INFINITE MERCY It’s already a full year since Pope Francis prayed for the whole world in that haunting and poignant televised...
by Michael McG | Jan 4, 2021 | Pope Francis, Pope's Prayer Intention
Pope Francis has chosen to highlight human fraternity for the first intention of the new year, with a focus on communion with those of other religions.Director of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network Father David Stewart tells us more…A greater sense of human...
by Michael McG | Dec 4, 2020 | Pope Francis, Pope's Prayer Intention
By Fr David Stewart SJ As this awful year has unfolded and as the second wave of the pandemic has spread across many lands, fears began to grow about our Advent and our Christmas. Would we be able to celebrate together, or even be together? The Pope’s prayer intention...
by Michael McG | Nov 5, 2020 | Pope Francis, Pope's Prayer Intention
We continue our fervent prayer for all of humanity this month, as the whole world continues to suffer from the pandemic, yet we keep in our prayer another concern that will affect us all, now and in the generations that follow us.Pope Francis asks us to pray with him...