Pope Leo's Prayer Intentions for September
Each year, the Holy Father asks us to pray for a specific intention each month. We want to invite you to respond to the Holy Father's request and join many people worldwide in praying for this intention each month.
For the care of water
"Let us pray for a just and sustainable management of water, a vital resource, so that everyone may have equal access to it."
Lord of Life, You have given us the gift of water, source of fruitfulness, freshness, and hope. It quenches thirst, nourishes the earth, and heals wounds.
We thank You because it is also a symbol of Your grace and love, renewing us through Baptism.
Today we ask You to teach us to safeguard it with gratitude, justice, and responsibility.
Forgive us for turning it into a commodity, forgetting that it is a universal gift, a right without borders, meant for all your children. We see with pain so many brothers and sisters who lack clean water, who walk for miles to find it, and who become ill because of its scarcity.
May your Spirit make us pilgrims of the essential, able to live with simplicity, denouncing waste and pollution, defending the right of every brother and sister to drink without fear and without inequality.
May our care for water be a sign of love for the Creator and a commitment to the lives of the poor, educating new generations to value and protect the Earth’s resources.
Amen.