"Prayer of the Pope", a network of true unity in times of division - Vatican News

In the press room of the Holy Center, the initiative was presented by the Communication Dicastery and the International Prayer Network...

"Pray with the Pope", a network of real community in times of division

Benedetta Cappelli - The Vatican

From the chapel of San Pellegrino in the Vatican to the rest of the world, Leo XIV created a network of real and only virtual contacts.The new initiative, promoted by the Pope's World Prayer Network and presented today, Wednesday, January 7, in the press room of the Holy See, means "Praying with the Pope".Shortly before the launch of the first video with prayer intentions for January, it was presented by the Dicastery for Communication, an active part of the Pope's project with the World Prayer Network, and recorded by the pontiff in three languages: English, Italian and Spanish.

Ruffini: slow prayer time

"The Pope's intimate and universal prayer is offered in a new, sobering and powerful way, as a visible tool of unity and communion in God. It is a meeting place for millions of people, present both in the digital space and in the concrete space of each person's life, starting from the heart of each person."Paolo Ruffini therefore emphasizes the importance of the "network" as a "tool of communion" and thus challenges the pace of our time by projecting today's man into "a reserved space for prayer in slow times".It emphasizes communion as a "communication tool": "This network of reality instead of virtuality shows that meeting is still possible even in times of division, bombs and war." And prayer helps to divide again into unity.

They pray for different purposes.

The monthly meeting in which the Leo Initiative adopts a language that reflects contemporary digital communication and is in line with the "Pope Video" launched by Francis ten years ago, which has since reached more than 260 million views on five continents.

Prayer is network building

"The Lion's memory of the pope is the pic of the mass of the romer of the dicheization for the opportion of the dicket.However, he has added - praying with building a site. in our own time, as a pope of our hope, we can understand."

Open

"'Pray with the Pope' - explains the International Director of the Pope's Global Prayer Network, the Father Christóbal Fones - wants to be an open door so that anyone, wherever they may be, can join the intention of prayer that the holy Father offers every month, praying with him in a synodal way".The importance of feeling part of a global community united by prayer, a bridge that can connect people from different cultures and reality, fostering hope and standing.

Avoid recording

Responding to the press, Father Fones emphasized that with his new step, Pope Leo directly expresses his interest in the initiative."It is not the Pope who speaks in front of the camera - he said, emphasizing that there are about 22 million people who are part of the worldwide prayer network - but he prays in the chapel" of the church of San Pellegrino in the Vatican.He then announced that Pope Leo had been recording videos with prayer intentions for the next three months.Instagram and "Leo XIV - he added - communicates as a man of his time, within his time in which he leaves space for prayer."A space where we can get away from the fleeting attention that conditions everyone's life today to breathe the fresh air of the Word of God.

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