Pope Francis traveled by car to \u0160a\u0161t\u00edn, 43 miles from Bratislava, for the last big ceremony of his trip. <\/p>\n
\u0160a\u0161t\u00edn houses the National Shrine of the patroness of Slovakia, Our Lady of Seven Sorrows.<\/p>\n
Pope Francis rode the popemobile around the large esplanade in front of the basilica, where tens of thousands of people were waiting for him. <\/p>\n
In his homily the Pope urged Catholics to escape from a static faith, which is satisfied with rites and traditions.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS The Pope explained that it is not a matter of fighting the world, but of behaving coherently. <\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS Pope Francis celebrated Mass at an altar with this modern image of St. Joseph, which was greatly admired...<\/p>\n He also prayed before the image of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows. It was donated 450 years ago by a woman who wanted to thank Our Lady for the miracle that changed her irascible husband's mood. It is said that since then, miraculous healings attributed to her intercession have multiplied. <\/p>\n As is traditional, the Pope offered Our Lady a golden rose in commemoration of his visit.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n JMB<\/p>\n TR: JM\/CT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Pope's trip concludes with Mass at the National Shrine of \u0160a\u0161t\u00edn, before Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows, patroness of Slovakia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5CEfw7MdulE","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmessasastineng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmessasastinint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44855"}],"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=44855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Let us not forget this: faith cannot be reduced to sugar that sweetens life. Jesus is a sign of contradiction. He has come to bring light where there is darkness, bringing darkness out into the open and forcing it to surrender.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>(Christians are) weavers of dialogue where positions harden; they make fraternity shine where in society there is division and hostility; they spread the good perfume of welcome and solidarity where personal and collective egoism predominate; they protect and care for life where the logic of death reigns.<\/em><\/p>\n