Prayer Archive

Let all be one! May we all be one! Good Father, we want to do our part and live the words that your son Jesus spoke to you. We wish to live out fully the mission we received at Baptism. We dream of being a Church in a communion of love that is collaborative and … Read moreMonthly Prayer for a Church open for everyone

I pray for those who have lost their life and those who have been injured in the clashes that broke out after a football match in Malang in Indonesia. Pope Francis

Let’s pray together, trusting in the mercy of God, who can change hearts, and in the maternal intercession of the Queen of Peace, spiritually united with the faithful all over the world. Pope Francis

I join in the appeal of the bishops of Cameroon for the liberation of eight people kidnapped in the diocese of Mamfe, including five priests and a religious sister. Let’s pray together for them and for the peoples of Bamenda: may the Lord grant peace to that dear country.

I would like to mention the terrible situation in martyred Ukraine. My envoy has told me about the pain of this people, the monstrosities they suffer. Let’s pray together for this martyred people, and for peace. Pope Francis

Let’s pray together for sufferers of Alzheimer’s, a disease that affects many people, who are often pushed to the margins of society as a result; for their families; and for those who lovingly care for them, that they may be increasingly helped. Pope Francis

Let us Pray Together that our world may learn how to build peace, not least by limiting the arms race and converting the enormous sums spent on war into concrete assistance to peoples. Pope Francis

Tomorrow, I will leave for a three-day journey in Kazakhstan, where I will take part in the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions. I ask you all to accompany me with prayer on this pilgrimage of dialogue and peace. Pope Francis

In the face of all the scenes of war in our time, I ask all of you to be peace builders. Let us pray together for reconciliation and harmony. Let us entrust the victims of every war to the Virgin Mary, especially the dear people of Ukraine. Pope Francis

Good Father, who left us in Jesus Christ the source of forgiveness and mercy before all human misery; give us the courage to oppose with determination the death penalty as punishment. No crime, no matter how aberrant, can escape the power of conversion and your infinite mercy. Confident, we ask you to send your Holy … Read moreMonthly Prayer for the abolition of the death penalty