2024 PRAYER INTENTIONS OF THE HOLY FATHER

The Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network (Apostleship of Prayer) is an international movement that is more than 170 years old. Each month, the Pope puts forward a prayer intention and asks Catholics around the world to join him in prayer. These intentions cover all sorts of areas of life, encouraging faith, renewing hope, and calling us to loving service. Here are the Pope’s intentions for 2024.

PRAYING EACH MONTH
‘The Pope Video’ forms part of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network. This video, published to Facebook and YouTube, includes a personal message from the pope as he asks us to pray for each monthly intention. You can find it at www.thepopevideo.org

Follow the process:

1. WATCH ‘The Pope Video’ at the beginning of each month

2. PRAY with the Pope’s intention each day at www.clicktopray.org/daily

3. REFLECT on the ‘Proposals’ for action

4. ACT in light of the intention and proposals

5. REPEAT for each month of the year.

JANUARY

FOR THE GIFT OF DIVERSITY IN THE CHURCH

We pray that the Holy Spirit may help us to recognise the gift of different charisms within the Christian

community and to discover the richness of different traditions and rituals in the Catholic Church.

FEBRUARY

FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL

We pray that those with a terminal illness, and their families, receive the necessary physical and

spiritual care and accompaniment.

MARCH

FOR THE NEW MARTYRS

We pray that those who risk their lives for the Gospel in various parts of the world inflame the Church

with their courage and missionary enthusiasm.

APRIL

FOR THE ROLE OF WOMEN

We pray that the dignity and immense value of women be recognised in every culture, and for the end

of discrimination that they experience in different parts of the world.

MAY

FOR THE FORMATION OF RELIGIOUS AND SEMINARIANS

We pray that religious women and men, and seminarians, grow in their own vocations through their

human, pastoral, spiritual and community formation, leading them to be credible witnesses to the

Gospel.

JUNE

FOR MIGRANTS FLEEING THEIR HOMES

We pray that migrants fleeing from war or hunger, forced to undertake journeys full of danger and

violence, find welcome and new opportunities in the countries that receive them.

JULY

FOR THE PASTORAL CARE OF THE SICK

We pray that the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick confer to those who receive it and their loved

ones the power of the Lord and become ever more a visible sign of compassion and hope for all.

AUGUST

FOR POLITICAL LEADERS

We pray that political leaders be at the service of their own people, working for integral human

development and for the common good, especially caring for the poor and those who have lost their

jobs.

SEPTEMBER

FOR THE CRY OF THE EARTH

We pray that each one of us will hear and take to heart the cry of the Earth and of victims of natural

disasters and climactic change, and that all will undertake to personally care for the world in which we

live.

OCTOBER

FOR A SHARED MISSION

We pray that the Church continue to sustain in all ways a Synodal lifestyle, as a sign of co-responsibility,

promoting the participation, the communion and the mission shared among priests, religious and lay

people.

NOVEMBER

FOR ANYONE WHO HAS LOST A CHILD

We pray that all parents who mourn the loss of a son or daughter find support in their community and

receive peace and consolation from the Holy Spirit.

DECEMBER

FOR PILGRIMS OF HOPE

We pray that this Jubilee Year strengthen our faith, helping us to recognise the Risen Christ in our daily

lives, and that it may transform us into pilgrims of Christian hope.