Prayer Articles

Pope Francis’ Prayer Intentions for August is for The Maritime World. We are asked to pray for all those who work and live from the sea,...

In future 2020 will be remembered by many different names. In Australia, one of them could well be the Year of Hard Times and Places....

This year Refugee Week has been swallowed by the disruption caused by COVID-19, and by the fracturing of society in the United States. In a...

Pope Francis’ Intention for April is Freedom from Addiction. This prayer encompasses all of us. When we hear of addicts we usually think of other...

For most of us the last two weeks have been like living in a washing machine on spin rinse.  The speed of change has been...

When we think of the horrors of war our minds often turn to the nuclear bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Each of these bombs...

In 2020 it is hard to think of Ash Wednesday (26 February) without also seeing the burned houses and forests and the charred bodies of...

Pope Francis’ Intention for February is for those caught up in human trafficking: that our migrant brothers and sisters, victims of criminal human smuggling and...

Pope Francis’ intention for December is for ‘The Future of the Very Young’. He prays every country take the measures necessary to prioritise the future...

On 13 October, Pope Francis will declare 19th century British cardinal John Henry Newman a saint. The British theologian will be one of five people...

World Humanitarian Day (19 August) is a day of hope and of encouragement. When we look at the world news we can easily believe that...

Pope Francis’ Intention for August is that families, through their life of prayer and love, become ever more clearly ‘schools of true human growth’. When...