‘Entrusting each of you to the protection of the Holy Family of Nazareth, I ask you please to pray for me, as I pray for you.’
With the news of Pope Leo’s diagnosis of lung cancer, Catholics have been praying fervently for the Holy Father — and now, our dear American-born Pope is asking specifically for us to pray for him.
“As you know, I have been unable to be among you during these days,” Pope Leo wrote today in a message delivered to clergy and Catholics attending a Vatican conference on the family.
And then he gave the faithful a job to do, as he promised his own prayers:
“Entrusting each of you to the protection of the Holy Family of Nazareth, I ask you please to pray for me, as I pray for you.”
It may be something we take for granted, that the Successor to St. Peter is praying for us, and we for him, but let’s increase our prayer time for Pope Leo.
Tell the Register, and by extension Leo, how you are praying for him.
Have you prayed, perhaps with your family, your daily Rosary for the intention of the Holy Father’s health? Have
