What shall we pray for this month?

Pope Benedict's general prayer intention for December is for a Culture of Life:

"That, faced with the growing expansion of the culture of violence and death, the Church may courageously promote the culture of life through all her apostolic and missionary activities."

His missionary prayer intention is for Fraternal Witness:

"That, especially in mission countries, Christians may show through gestures of kindness that the Child born in Bethlehem is the Hope of the world."