Pope’s Prayer Intention for April

This month’s prayer intention should be of particular importance to Pray Tellers:
“That the public, prayerful celebration of faith may give life to the faithful.”
I think all of us — wherever we find ourselves on the (artificial) spectrum on any given day: lit professionals, rads, trads, newly ultramontanes, hybrids, etc. — can (and should) pray for this wholeheartedly.

Teresa Berger

Teresa Berger is Professor of Liturgical Studies at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School in New Haven, CT, USA, where she also serves as the Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor of Catholic Theology. She holds doctorates in both theology and in liturgical studies. Recent publications include an edited volume, Full of Your Glory: Liturgy, Cosmos, Creation (2019), and a monograph titled @ Worship: Liturgical Practices in Digital Worlds (2018). Earlier publications include Gender Differences and the Making of Liturgical History (2011), Fragments of Real Presence (2005), and a video documentary, Worship in Women’s Hands (2007).

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9 responses to “Pope’s Prayer Intention for April”

  1. Rita Ferrone Avatar
    Rita Ferrone

    Teresa, that’s a great intention to keep in prayer. What is your source of this information? Did you get it from Twitter? I’ve never been aware of monthly prayer intention announcements. Is this new? (I’m not on Twitter.)

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    1. Fran Rossi Szpylczyn

      @Rita Ferrone – comment #1:
      Rita, a bit off topic, but I just read your article about the Second Vatican Council in Ministry and Liturgy, and it is excellent. Thank you. Sorry to use this space, I do not know how else to reach you. Peace and the joy of Easter to you!

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    2. Samuel J. Howard

      @Rita Ferrone – comment #1:

      The intentions are published through the Vatican Information Service, L’Osservatore Romano and other sources. The January intention is usually made available in December and the full set for the year in January.

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    Rita Ferrone

    Thanks, Fran!

    And thanks, Sam. I was not aware of that.

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    1. Teresa Berger

      @Rita Ferrone – comment #4:
      My (German) liturgical calendar (a little paper one) also lists them, at the beginning of each month, and I think our parish prints them in the bulletin too. I got this April one from the Vatican news website — which I have been viewing religiously every day now since Pope Francis started making genuine news :).

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      1. Teresa Berger

        @Teresa Berger – comment #5:
        Oh and no, this is not a new thing at all.
        Furthermore, there is also a second intention (every month?) that I left out of my post, for the missions.

  3. Terri Miyamoto

    They are printed in the ordo. I try to include them in the Sunday intercessions at least once a month.

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  4. Gerard Flynn

    When I was in school in the 1970s the Christian Brothers used to distribute monthly a leaflet published by the Jesuits called “Apostleship of Prayer.” The front page always contained the Pope’s intention for the month. The Apostleship of Prayer began coincidentally, the year the Brothers’ founder, Edmund Ignatius Rice died, in 1844.

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  5. Mollie Wilson O'Reilly

    The morning offering I learned in grade school dedicates my daily “works, prayers, joys, and sufferings” as offerings for (among other things) “the intentions of our bishop and all the apostleship of prayer, and in particular for those recommended by the Holy Father this month.” So I take it this monthly prayer suggestion has been going on for a long time. I always mean to go and find out exactly what recommended intention I’m praying for, but I usually forget!

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