Pope Francis’ prayer intention for the month of October is “for a Church open to all.”
In this sense, the Holy Father has asked us to pray “so that the Church, faithful to the Gospel and courageous in proclaiming it, may live synodality more and more and be a place of solidarity, fraternity and welcome.”
In an interview with the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano (LOR), in February 2019, the director of the Pope’s Apostleship of Prayer Network, Fr. Frédéric Fornos, explained that in the Pope’s prayer intentions “we find an echo in the challenges for the world”.
Fr. Fornos indicated that Pope Francis urges us to pray for those who “let themselves be led down the path of death, due to various dependencies: drug or alcohol abuse, harmful use of new technologies or online pornography, with all its consequences. ”.