Is God active in our world today? Is He influencing our world’s events?
Sometimes it can be tempting to believe that God isn’t active in our world today – that God only influenced world events thousands of years ago. But that isn’t true! God is constantly engaged in our world. Often God’s influence appears through the lives of the saints and in the life of the Church.

One way has been the recent popes’ emphasis on the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Four Popes since 1899 have dedicated encyclicals to the Sacred Heart: Pope Leo XIII, Pope Pius XI, Pope Pius XII, and Pope Francis. Each of these popes saw the Sacred Heart as a powerful antidote to today’s culture.

Most recently, Pope Leo XIV has joined the other popes in honoring the Sacred Heart. In his June prayer intention, Pope Leo XIV asks us all to pray that the world might grow in compassion through a personal relationship with Jesus. In his prayer, Pope Leo XIV gives us a new, original 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.

PRAY WITH US AT 7 PM CT

Join us tonight on the Family Rosary Across America at 7pm CT as we pray in union with Pope Leo XIV and the whole church!

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