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During this month of May, Pope Leo invites us to pray that everyone, from large producers to small consumers, be committed to avoid wasting food, and to ensure that everyone has access to quality food.
0:43
As you listen to this reading, notice how James encourages his community to put faith into practice… by attending to each other’s bodily needs for food and warmth… and treating one another as brothers and sisters…
1:08
What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,” and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I by my works will show you my faith. (James 2:14-18)
2:15
The earth produces more than enough food for all its inhabitants, and yet hundreds of millions go without food each day… is it too much to hope that one day there will be an end to hunger…?
2:36
Contemplate the abundance of the fruit of the earth in all its biodiversity…
2:45
now contrast it with the starving faces of the hundreds of millions of people who will go hungry today… allow yourself to be gently moved by the scandal of world hunger…
3:34
An authentic faith expresses itself in tangible gestures of solidarity… that demonstrate care for the human family whether near or far… Can you recall a moment when you met another person’s bodily need for food or warmth… or simply treated them as a brother or sister… and felt faith come alive in your heart…?
4:35
Whether you commit yourself to making better choices about what you eat, avoiding wasteful consumption, or allowing yourself to be filled with gratitude for each mouthful of food… decide how you want to put your faith into practice today…and make this your offering to God…
5:29
Take a moment to become receptive and responsive to God… notice how the scandal of world hunger has moved you… whether to fresh insight, sadness or resolve… and follow those movements to see what invitation they hold for you…
6:51
We draw this prayer-time together using the Pope’s own prayer off offering. Use it to focus on your own day, thinking of the people you encounter and their needs.
7:15
Good Father, I know you are with me. Here I am on this new day. Place my heart once more next to the Heart of your Son Jesus, who is giving himself for me and who comes to me in the Eucharist. May your Holy Spirit make me his friend and apostle, available for his mission of compassion. I place in your hands my joys and hopes, my works and sufferings, everything that I am and have, in communion with my brothers and sisters of this Worldwide Prayer Network. With Mary, I offer you my day for the mission of the Church and for the prayer intentions of the Pope and my Bishop for this month. Amen.
8:15
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end, Amen.