This month, Pope Leo XIV invites us to pray for guidance in our discernment, that we may learn how to listen for God’s voice and discover where He is leading us.
The Holy Father’s July prayer intention echoes his address to young pilgrims from Denmark, Ireland, England, Wales, and Scotland last week, when he said that “today, so often, we lose the ability to listen, to really listen. We listen to music, we have our ears flooded constantly with all kinds of digital input, but sometimes we forget to listen to our own hearts, and it’s in our hearts that God speaks to us, that God calls us and invites us to know Him better and to live in His love.” This month, along with the Holy Father, let us renew our commitment to prayerful listening to the Word of God and to God’s action within our own hearts, that we may allow “God’s grace to strengthen our faith in Jesus, so that we might more readily share that gift with others” (Pope Leo XIV, from his above audience).
Learn more about Pope Leo’s July prayer intention here: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-07/pope-leo-xiv-july-prayer-intention-formation-discernment.html
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