“The Lord is the refuge of the poor” is the title of Pope Leo XIV’s Message for the 10th World Day of the Poor for this month of November. Accordingly, the Pontiff dedicates his prayer intention for the month to the “proper use of wealth”. Through the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network—with the campaign Pray with the Pope—the Holy Father invites the faithful and all people of good will to pray, remembering and deepening the conviction that “by sharing, we build the future”.
“Nothing is ours alone; everything is a shared gift”, he says in his prayer. The Pontiff admits that wealth, “desired or attained”, can harden the heart and make us forget the most fragile. Pope Leo asks forgiveness “for accumulating instead of sharing, for using goods as power rather than as service”.
