Thank you for joining us each week for our Mission Rosary – Missio’s beautiful way to pray for the world.

In the first week of Advent, our thoughts turn to hope – so often elusive in our troubled world. This week, we pray that we will be the light of hope to the world: that by our compassion, our prayers, and our help, we may reach out to all those who despair and bring them into God’s comforting love.

If worries weigh down our hearts and induce us to close in on ourselves, Jesus, on the other hand, invites us to lift up our heads, to trust in his love that wants to save us and that draws close to us in every situation of our existence. He asks us to make room for Him in order to find hope again.’ – Pope Francis