Pope’s General Prayer Intention for January

(January 05, 2011) “Care for Creation, so that its riches are available today and preserved for future generations” is Pope Benedict XVI’s general prayer intention for the month of January. The Pope prays that the riches of the created world may be preserved, valued and made available as God’s precious gift to all. Pope Benedict has often spoken for the protection of the environment. In his message for World Peace Day 2010, entitled “If you want to cultivate peace, protect Creation,” Pope Benedict said “I have observed that whenever Nature, and human beings in particular, are seen merely as products of chance, our overall sense of responsibility wanes. The solution, said Pope Benedict is to see creation as God’s gift to Humanity. Rejecting selfishness, we must learn to use resources wisely and to share them fairly, said the Pope. We need to reject the secular view of a world created, not by God, but by chance. We owe it to our children’s children to protect our world. It is an awesome privilege and a moral requirement, he added.