Pope Francis shared his monthly prayer intention video for March, urging the faithful to pray for families in crisis.
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 March!
“We all dream about a beautiful, perfect family. But there’s no such thing as a
perfect family. Every family has its own problems, as well as its tremendous joys.
Every member of the family is important because each member is different than
the others, each person is unique. But these differences can also cause conflict
and painful wounds.
And the best medicine to heal the pain of a wounded family is forgiveness.
Forgiveness means giving another chance. God does this with us all the time. God’s patience is infinite. He forgives us, lifts us up, gives us a new start. Forgiveness always renews the family, making it look forward with hope.
Even when there’s no possibility of the “happy ending” we’d like, God’s grace gives us the strength to forgive, and it brings peace, because it frees us from sadness, and, above all, from resentment.
Let us pray that broken families might discover the cure for their wounds through
forgiveness, rediscovering each other’s gifts, even in their differences.”
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