[Catholic Caucus] This is Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for the month of June

Catholic News Agency ^ | June 3, 2025 | CNA Staff

[fidelis]

In his first prayer intention video of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV has asked the faithful to pray that the world might grow in compassion during the month of June.

“Let us pray that each one of us might find consolation in a personal relationship with Jesus, and from his heart, learn to have compassion on the world,” the pope said in a video released June 3.

The video also includes an original prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to which the month of June is dedicated.

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Here is the full prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus:...

[fidelis]

Pope Leo XIV:

“Let us pray that each one of us might find consolation in a personal relationship with Jesus, and from his heart, learn to have compassion on the world.”

[fidelis]

Here is the full prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus:

Lord, I come to your tender heart today, to you who have words that set my heart ablaze, to you who pour out compassion on the little ones and the poor, on those who suffer, and on all human miseries.

I desire to know you more, to contemplate you in the Gospel, to be with you and learn from you and from the charity with which you allowed yourself to be touched by all forms of poverty.

You showed us the Father’s love by loving us without measure with your divine and human heart.

Grant all your children the grace of encountering you. Change, shape, and transform our plans, so that we seek only you in every circumstance: in prayer, in work, in encounters, and in our daily routine.

From this encounter, send us out on mission, a mission of compassion for the world in which you are the source from which all consolation flows.

Amen.

[scouter]

How refreshing to have a pope who, you know…, actually prays for people to come closer to Jesus Christ.

[irishjuggler]

How refreshing to not have a crypto-atheist as pope.

[BarbM]

How refreshing that during Mass when the priests names the pope, I no longer have to cringe when I hear Pope Leo.

[Chicory]

Thank you!