Listening to Pope Francis speaking this year, it becomes quite evident how accurately he has diagnosed what ails our world today. We have a heart condition - heart failure - failure to love the way the world needs to be loved.
Each month the Apostleship of Prayer, will provide a video with Pope Francis prayer intention for that month. This months intention is Interreligious Dialogue. Bigger guns and higher fences will not heal the world. But remedies will be found in a wisdom that comes from God. That is why people of faith must put on the white coasts of healers and get to work. But first, Pope Francis points out, they must enter into dialogue with each other to discover what healing wisdom God is revealing.
In France the publication, Charlie Hebdo, as well as many other secular voices blames religion for the world's problems, and terrorism in the name of religion clearly reinforces their thinking.
Terrorism is no wisdom from God, but it is the strategy of God's enemy, and the enemy of all faiths. Pope Francis is calling all people of faith to unite in dialogue, in a common struggle with the disease of falsehood that can infect the heart of all religions.
Each one of us needs take a (C.T.) scan, Contamination of Truth - prayerfully scanning, by the Prayer of Discernment, for any falsehood that may be infecting God's truth in our hearts. Thus we will be ready and fit to engage with the Holy Father in the Works of Mercy, in this Year of Mercy.
The following is a link to the Apostleship of Prayer site where you will find additional resources. [... LINK ...]
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