Vatican City, Feb 1, 2008 / 11:19 am
Today the Press Office of the Holy See released Pope Benedict's prayer intentions for the month of February.
Pope Benedict's general prayer intention is: "That the mentally handicapped may not be marginalised, but respected and lovingly helped to live in a way worthy of their physical and social condition".
His mission intention is: "That the institutes of consecrated life, which are so flourishing in mission countries, may rediscover the missionary dimension and, faithful to the radical choice of the evangelical counsels, be generous in bearing witness to and announcing Christ to the ends of the earth."