APOSTLESHIP INTENTIONS SIR,—Your issue for January 5 gives a list

of the Holy Father's Intentions for 1951. describing them as " intentions for prayer throughout the Catholic world.
The list that you give is that of the Apostleship of Prayer intentions. These intentions are proposed to the Holy Father by the Apostleship, approved (and sometimes altered) by him, and commended by his authority to the members of the Apostleship. Yet there is no mention of the Apostleship in your article.
Far be it from me to suggest that those who do not belong to the Apostleship should not pray for
these intentions. Indeed your expression " throughout the Catholic world" is apt enough, since the Holy Father desires all Catholics to join the Apostleship.
But may I point out one unhappy effect of your eliminating any allusion to the Apostleship from your article ? It is that you thereby contribute, inadvertently, to that diminishing of devotion to the Sacred .Heart of Jesus which is beginning to assume the character of a conspiracy of silence. For the intentions you cite are meant to be amplifications of the Morning Offering of the Apostleship of Prayer; they are meant to be added to the prayer " for all the intentions of the Divine Heart in the Holy Mass." By obscuring this your article weakens one of the means in use for keeping before the Faithful the memory of the Sacred Heart.
LEONARD ROAM, S.J.
National Secretary, Apostleship of Prayer.