Pope Francis: What would happen if we prayed more and complained less?

[Michie]

“What would happen if we prayed more and complained less?” Pope Francis asked Aug. 2 on his official profile on X.

He then invited the faithful to ask the Lord for “the grace to know how to pray for one another.”

The Holy Father posted this message as part of the Year of Prayer 2024, which he proposed as a preparation for the upcoming Jubilee of Hope 2025.

Continued below.

Pope: What would happen if we prayed more and complained less?

Pope Francis invited the faithful to ask the Lord for “the grace to know how to pray for one another.”

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[RileyG]

Thanks for the reminder. I need to pray more.

 

[chevyontheriver]

“What would happen if we prayed more and complained less?” Pope Francis asked Aug. 2 on his official profile on X.

He then invited the faithful to ask the Lord for “the grace to know how to pray for one another.”

The Holy Father posted this message as part of the Year of Prayer 2024, which he proposed as a preparation for the upcoming Jubilee of Hope 2025.

Continued below.

Pope: What would happen if we prayed more and complained less?

Pope Francis invited the faithful to ask the Lord for “the grace to know how to pray for one another.”

www.catholicnewsagency.com

Pope Francis is right once in a while like a stopped clock. Here he is sort of right. We need to maintain criticality in thinking, and sometimes confront error, but we do need to pray more.

I think it is a given that society has jumped into the deep end of the pool and can’t swim. The Church has lots of confused people in it who don’t know what to do, maybe jump in too, maybe get a pole, maybe just watch, maybe cheer the inevitable drowning on. Rescue drowning individuals, pulling them onto the barque of Peter? That’s too obvious.

We can’t do that without prayer. Prayer is the essential to engaging in rescue. Before that it is essential to getting right with God. Once right with God we are no longer tools of the enemy but can be useful for God.

I have been given a word that I should be doing a lot of intercessory prayer. God will provide the names. I will pray for their souls and their needs. I’m going to try. And as part of that try I’m going to also disengage as much as I can from politics this silly season. I will try not to feel the need to challenge every lie posted on the internet. I’m going to see if I can find a Peter Sonski for president lawn sign and leave to at that. Let the dead bury the dead.

I am of the opinion that the end is near. Maybe not, but that’s my opinion. Real global war is ready to go, something that won’t be fought ‘over there’ but will hit us all hard. I just endured three days without power after a windstorm. A few well placed EMP would mean a lot more than three days without power for tens of millions of people instead of tens of thousands. Point being it looks like it may be time to be cramming for the spiritual final even more than planning for a big power outage. I am going to be looking at inverters and batteries and solar panels, but I better look more to the state of my sorry soul.