Posted on 06/01/2026 1:43:18 PM PDT by ebb tide
Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for June 2026 is “let us pray that sports be an instrument of peace, encounter, and dialogue among cultures and nations, and that they promote values such as respect, solidarity, and personal growth.”
The Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network, which disseminates the monthly papal prayer intention, will release the video associated with the intention tomorrow, according to the network’s YouTube channel, The Pope Video.
June: The Sacred Heart of Jesus Focuses on the physical heart of Jesus as a symbol of His boundless, redeeming love and mercy for humanity, not to "promote values such as respect, solidarity, and personal growth.”
Ping
To be fair, the traditional devotion for the month is a separate thing from the Pope's changeable monthly special intentions which are not to supplant each month' traditional devotion, but only reflect each Pope's particular intention for that month to be offered to the faithful as a focus of prayer. Every Pope has done this for as long as I can remember. It began in 1879 when Pope Leo XIII introduced it as part of the Apostleship of Prayer.
But sports? Really?
If anybody needs prayers, it's the wide world of sports. All of the "gender" confusion, exploitation of talented kids by ambitious parents, misusing sports to make political statements, and greedy club ownership (all things people in these forums complain about all the time), there's a lot to pray for. I think it's too much to ask in one month out of this single year of 2026 to spare a prayer for sports.
What a waste.
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