{"id":43121,"date":"2022-12-14T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2022\/12\/14\/pope-francis-asks-to-lower-level-of-christmas-spending-and-send-the-savings-to-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2022-12-14T12:23:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T11:23:21","slug":"pope-francis-asks-to-lower-level-of-christmas-spending-and-send-the-savings-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2022\/12\/14\/pope-francis-asks-to-lower-level-of-christmas-spending-and-send-the-savings-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis asks to lower level of Christmas spending and send the savings to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Pope Francis welcomed pilgrims to his General Audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall. He remembered the people of Ukraine, asking the faithful to remember them in a particular way this Christmas season.   <br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nPOPE FRANCIS<\/strong><em><br \/>\nLet's lower the level of Christmas spending, as it's called. Let's have a more humble Christmas with more humble gifts. Let's send what we save to the Ukrainian people in need. They suffer so much. They go hungry; they feel the cold. And so many die because there are no doctors or nurses on hand. Let us not forget. A Christmas, yes, at peace with the Lord, yes, but with Ukrainians in our hearts. And let's make that concrete gesture for them.<br \/>\n<\/em> <br \/>\nPope Francis also greeted young Italian volunteers present for the National Day of Civil Service. He praised their work and dedication to the service of others as a beautiful part of the Italian culture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><em><br \/>\nYou have a strong, strong sense of volunteering. Keep moving forward with this spirituality of volunteering that makes so many of us help each other. It unites us as well.<br \/>\n<\/em>   <br \/>\nThe Pope also began the last part of his catechesis on discernment. He emphasized the need to be vigilant against the temptations of overconfidence and a false sense of security.<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><em><br \/>\nIf vigilance is lacking, there is a very strong danger, as we said, that all will be lost. This is not a danger of a psychological order, no, but of a spiritual order, a real pitfall of the evil spirit. In fact, he waits for the very moment when we are overconfident. This is dangerous.<\/em>  <\/p>\n<p>At the end of the Audience, Pope Francis spent time praying in front of the Nativity Scene.  <\/p>\n<p>KG&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his General Audience, the Pope encouraged the faithful to make a concrete gesture for the suffering people in Ukraine during the Christmas season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":43122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/aCP-vuipDNQ","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza1412eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza1412int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43121"}],"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=43121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}