GENERAL INTENTION
So that the unemployed get the support and work they need to live with dignity.
MISSIONARY INTENTION
For Europe to rediscover its Christian roots through the testimony of faith of believers.
INTENTION OF THE BISHOPS
For priests to be true friends of Jesus, to share the ideals and feelings of his Heart.
INTENTION OF THE PIOUS UNION
«Prayer for the summer and holiday period»
Lord, while I thank you for the summer rest, I remember those who do not have it and would like it; but also of those who have a lot of it and don't know what to do with it. Sir, have you ever had holidays?
Put that way, I think not. You filled your "important" time with silence and conversations with the Father, but also with visits to friends, meetings with families, trips to each village. The time of rest is sacred, because it heals, teaches, prepares, makes wise, refines.
Lord, give silence and peace to my time of rest. Dona finally meets without haste with the brothers I cross paths with. Push me to places where visits are rare and hasty: hospitals, hospices, houses crossed by pain. I will come out of this more at peace, and I already know why.
Lord, rest in prayer is not the emptiness of everything, but the fullness of You. it is a time for celebration, praise and gratitude. it is the eighth instant, like the one that followed the creation of everything.
It is not absence, but presence. Of the world and creatures. Of myself, of the other, of You. So be it.
