This month, Pope Leo XIV is inviting people to pray “that societies avoid internal conflicts due to ethnic, political, religious or ideological reasons”. Source: Vatican News.
“Let us pray that societies where coexistence seems more difficult might not succumb to the temptation of confrontation for ethnic, political, religious, or ideological reasons,” Pope Leo says in The Pope Video prayer intention for August.
“We live in times of fear and division,” the Pope says. “Sometimes we act as if we were alone, building walls that separate us from one another, forgetting that we are brothers and sisters.”
He calls on Jesus to send the Holy Spirit “to rekindle within us the desire to understand one another, to listen, to live together with respect and compassion”.
The Pope goes on to ask the Lord for “the courage to seek paths of dialogue, to respond to conflict with gestures of fraternity, to open our hearts to others without fear of difference.”
“Make us builders of bridges, able to overcome borders and ideologies, able to see others through the eyes of the heart, recognising in every person an inviolable dignity,” Pope Leo prays, before concluding, “Help us to create spaces where hope can flourish, where diversity is not a threat but a richness that makes us more human.”
The Pope Video acquires special relevance this Jubilee Year since through it, the public knows the prayer intentions the Pope holds in his heart. To properly receive the graces of the Jubilee indulgence, it is necessary to pray for the Pope’s intentions.
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Pope’s August prayer intention: For mutual coexistence (By Christopher Wells, Vatican News)
