• GENERAL INTENTION For the wisdom and experience of older people to be recognized in the Church and in society.
• MISSIONARY INTENTION For priests, religious and lay people to collaborate generously in the mission of evangelization.
• INTENTION OF THE BISHOPS So that consecrated people bear witness to the wisdom of poverty and are a sign of contradiction in a society that thrives on efficiency and success.

INTENTION OF THE PIOUS UNION

«For children without families» «Hello Jesus! Here we are in front of you, no one is missing. We are children without families. In the sense that ours is unknown to us, absent, broken, due to drama or desperation, due to loneliness or abandonment. We are witnesses of pain and loss, but also of the miracle that can always happen when someone - a man and a woman - gathers us to hold us close to their chest, like fragrant bread that has just come out of the oven. Without saying: “Who is this?”. We are without family and difficulty is our daily grace; for some it is also the surprise of a couple who bends over our fragility to make us experience what is good and true in their life, without asking for anything in return, as a pure gesture of love that brings nothing except the emotion of learn to call ourselves children. Whoever welcomes us learns another thing: reality changes outline, everything takes on new value: it is You, Jesus, who manifests Yourself in their eyes. Yes, because we are your presence. We are Christmas every day and whoever bends over this manger in Bethlehem gets up with a different look, capable of welcoming the destiny of another."