Pope Francis affirmed that daily prayer and the Eucharist “make us pilgrims-missionaries of hope,” in a message published on the social network X.
Daily prayer and, above all, the Eucharist make us pilgrims-missionaries of hope, on the path towards endless life in God, towards the wedding banquet prepared by Him for all His children. #YearofPrayer
— Pope Francis (@Pontifex_es) October 19, 2024
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“Daily prayer and, above all, the Eucharist make us pilgrims-missionaries of hope, on the path towards endless life in God, towards the wedding banquet prepared by Him for all His children,” indicated the Holy Father in his message this Saturday, October 19.
What is the Year of Prayer, called by Pope Francis?
The message concludes with the hashtag #YearofPrayer, which began in January of this year and will serve as preparation for the Jubilee of 2025.
Regarding the Year of Prayer, Pope Francis explained that it is “a year dedicated to rediscovering the great value and absolute necessity of prayer in personal life, in the life of the Church and the world,” as he said on December 21. January of this year when he announced it.
“The next few months will lead us to the opening of the Holy Door, with which we will begin the Jubilee (of 2025). I ask you to intensify your prayer to prepare us to live this event of grace well and thus experience the strength of God’s hope,” Francis exhorted that day.
The motto of this Year of Prayer is taken from the Gospel passage in which the disciples ask Jesus: “Teach us to pray” (Lk 11, 1).
Walter Sánchez Silva
I have been a husband since 2008. My wife and I have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before he was born. Since I joined ACI Prensa in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Cologne, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and of Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the Family synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Synodality, in 2023. I closely follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers persecution from the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as current ecclesiastical events in the region.