Our Spiritual Foundation
The Way of the Heart
The Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network is rooted in the spirituality of the Heart of Jesus. At the center of this spirituality is a path we call The Way of the Heart—a journey that helps us grow closer to Jesus by aligning our hearts with His: His desires, His compassion, and His mission.
This path is a deeply human and spiritual process, carefully shaped to help us listen, feel, and respond like Christ in our daily lives. Through it, we learn to welcome and serve the Kingdom of God with hearts open to love and moved by mercy.
Live two inseparable dimensions
Compassion for the world and for human beings
People who accept and pray for the intentions proposed by the Pope open their eyes and hearts to the needs of the world through this particular spiritual path, making their own the joys and hopes, the sorrows and sufferings of humanity and the Church, and are inspired to perform spiritual and corporal works of compassion. In this way, they live a spiritual path that allows them to leave behind the “globalization of indifference” and open up to compassion for the world.
Communion with the mission of the Son
Through this spiritual path, animated and coordinated by the PWPN, the missionary and priestly vocation of the baptised person is reawakened, enabling to collaborate in daily life with the mission that the Father has entrusted to his Son. In this way the person becomes inwardly available to God’s call, through His Holy Spirit, who challenges and guides every human heart and conscience towards the good.