Prayer

The Holy Father’s intention for the month of May, “That everyone might have food,, focuses on the most urgent challenges of our time: hunger and wasted food.

More than 22 million people in over 90 countries pray each month around the same intention – the one the Pope puts forward. They don’t belong to the same organization or follow the same program, but are united across vastly different contexts – parishes, shrines, prayer groups...

Lord Jesus, on this glorious morning,
When you rose from the dead,
May our hearts be filled with gratitude and awe
For the love You showed us on the cross.

The Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network (PWPN), a global spiritual community uniting Christians around the Pope’s monthly prayer intentions, has unveiled its redesigned website at popesprayer.va.

Advent is a time of waiting, a sacred season in which the Church prepares to celebrate the birth of the Saviour and to welcome once again the light of Christ into our world. It is a time of hope, and in a world often marked by uncertainty and anxiety, Advent reminds us that hope...

In the evening of 19 October, the participants at the Meeting of Major Superiors gathered as pilgrims in a spiritual moment woven into the program of the 10-day meeting. These men, entrusted with the care of Provinces and Regions within the Society of Jesus...

Yesterday evening, in the chapel of St Francis Borgia at the General Curia in Rome, Fr General Arturo Sosa officially opened the 3rd Meeting of Major Superiors (MMS). From every corner of the world, Jesuits have come to discuss, with their brothers, the challenges that...

Glorious Lord Christ:
The divine influence secretly diffused and active
In the depths of matter,
And the dazzling center
Where all the innumberable fibres of the manifold meet...

At the end, I turn to Jesus Christ,
Hanging on his cross,
And I talk with him.
I ask how can it be that the Lord and Creator
Should have come from the infinite reaches of eternity
To this death here on earth, so that he could die for our sins.

In 2025, we invite you to join the Society of Jesus in its mission of promoting God’s kingdom of peace as we labor for a more just and compassionate world. Let us commit to showing the way to God, walking with the excluded, accompanying young people, and caring for our common home.

The birth of Jesus speaks to us of simplicity, humility, and profound peace. It calls us to embody lives of compassion, selflessness, and service. Guided by these values, the Society of Jesus continues to inspire people to become men and women for and with others, particularly those most in need.

From 1 January 2025, Father Cristóbal Fones, SJ, will take up the role of International Director of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network. This Pontifical work, established by Pope Francis in 2018, promotes prayer at the heart of Church’s mission as well as the spirituality...