Christmas was in the air during the Pope Francis' General Audience.<\/p>\n
This group dressed in traditional outfits from a region in Italy and welcomed him with a Christmas carol.<\/p>\n
The Pope then delivered his final catechesis on discernment, and explained the importance of establishing what he called an 'affectionate' relationship with scripture.<\/p>\n
He shared the example of the prophet Elijah: the Bible says how he managed to see God in a moment of calmness. Pope Francis said that the passage shows the value of stopping to listen to God.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS He said that these teachings on discernment can help people face their lives more freely.<\/p>\n After his catechesis, the Pope turned his attention to the Ukrainians who are still in a country at war in the middle of winter, without heat or electricity. In particular, he remembered the situation of Ukrainian children. <\/p>\n POPE FRANICS In greeting the Polish pilgrims Francis thanked them for opening their homes to Ukrainians and devoting their time and resources to help them.<\/p>\n JRB It was the Pope's last catechesis before celebrating Christmas at the Vatican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/LFlkZFn5X9k","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza2112eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza2112int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Many times it is not easy to enter into that peace of the heart because we are busy with this, with that, all day long. But please, calm down a little bit. Enter into yourself, into yourself. Two minutes. Stop. See what your heart feels. But let's do this, brothers and sisters, it will help us a lot.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>On this feast of God who becomes a child, let us think of the Ukrainian children. When I have seen them here most of them cannot smile, and when a child loses the ability to smile it is serious. These children carry with them the tragedy of that war.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nTR: JM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"