For the month of June, the Holy Father invites us to pray with this intention:

"Let us pray that each of us may find consolation in our personal relationship with Jesus and learn from His heart to be compassionate with the world." (Pope Leo XIV)

In his monthly video, the Pope calls us back to the source of Christian love: the tender and compassionate heart of Jesus. It is there that each of us can find rest, inspiration, and renewed strength to live out the mission to which we are called: to be witnesses of a compassion that embraces all the world’s poverty.

Below, we share the full text of the Pope’s prayer, to help us enter into deep communion with the heart of Christ:

Lord, I come to Your tender Heart today,
to You who have words that set my heart ablaze,
to You who pour out compassion on the little ones and the poor,
on those who suffer, and on all human miseries.

I desire to know You more, to contemplate You in the Gospel,
to be with You and learn from You
and from the charity with which You allowed Yourself
to be touched by all forms of poverty.

You showed us the Father’s love by loving us without measure
with Your divine and human Heart.

Grant all Your children the grace of encountering You.
Change, shape, and transform our plans,
so that we seek only You in every circumstance:
in prayer, in work, in encounters, and in our daily routine.

From this encounter, send us out on mission,
a mission of compassion for the world
in which You are the source from which all consolation flows.

Amen.

May this month be a fruitful time to rediscover, at the school of the Heart of Jesus, the transforming power of tenderness and compassion.