Social Friendship: July 2021 Prayer Intention of Pope Francis
Join with Pope Francis and his worldwide prayer network in praying this month's intention: Social friendship
Date Posted:
05-Jul-2021
We pray that, in social, economic and political situations of conflict, we may be courageous and passionate architects of dialogue and friendship.
The Bible says that whoever
finds a friend has found a treasure.
I would like
to invite everyone to go beyond their groups of friends and build social
friendship, which is so necessary for living together well.
We especially
need to have a renewed encounter with the most impoverished and vulnerable,
those on the peripheries. And we need to distance ourselves from populisms that
exploit the anguish of the people without providing solutions, proposing a
mystique that solves nothing.
We must flee
from social enmity which only destroys, and leave “polarization” behind.
And this
isn’t always easy, especially today when part of our politics, society and
media are bent on creating enemies so as to defeat them in a game of power.
Dialogue is
the path to seeing reality in a new way, so we can live with passion the
challenges we face in constructing the common good.
Let us pray
that, in social, economic, and political situations of conflict, we may be
courageous and passionate architects of dialogue and friendship, men and women
who always hold out a helping hand, and may no spaces of enmity and war remain.
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