Pope Francis shared his monthly prayer intention video for February, urging the faithful to pray for vocations to the priesthood and religious life.

Pope Francis’ Worldwide Prayer Network of the Apostleship of Prayer developed “The Pope Video” initiative in 2016 as a way to spread the Holy Father’s monthly prayer intentions on the challenges humanity faces in a video based format.

Read below the full prayer intention of Pope Francis, and watch “The Pope Video” for February!

“When I was 17 years old, I was a student and was working. I had my own plans.

I wasn’t thinking at all of being a priest. But one day, I went into the church…and
God was there, waiting for me!

God still calls young people even today, sometimes in ways we can’t imagine.

Sometimes we don’t hear because we’re too busy with our own things, our own
plans, even with our own things in the Church.

But the Holy Spirit also speaks to us through dreams, and speaks to us through
the concerns young people feel in their hearts. If we accompany their journeys,
we’ll see how God is doing new things with them. And we’ll be able to welcome

His call in ways that better serve the Church and the world today.

Let’s trust young people! And, above all, let’s trust God for He calls everyone!

Let us pray that the ecclesial community might welcome the desires and doubts
of those young people who feel called to live Jesus’s mission in life: either through
the priestly life, or religious life.”

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