POPE'S MISSIONARY PRAYER INTENTION FOR DECEMBER

(Dec.01,2009): The Missionary Prayer intention of the Holy Father for the month of December is that during Christmas, the people of the Earth may recognize the Incarnate Word, as the light that illuminates every person, and that every nation may open its doors to Christ, the Saviour of the world. Scripture tells us that on a dark night, during a dark era of human history, the Light entered the world – Jesus Christ, the Son of God was born, and the world would never be the same.
Pope Benedict XVI asks us to pray during this month that the people of the world will recognize in Jesus, the Word made flesh. He says Jesus is everything that the Father wanted to communicate to us about himself. Jesus spoke the words of his Father, and he did the will of his Father in everything. His enlightening word to a dark and doubting world was that God is Love. The Pope says because Jesus was fully human, as well as divine, He also showed us what it means to be human. To be human, is to recognize the infinite worth of oneself and of others as children of God.