At the first Sunday Angelus of August, Pope Francis warned Christians against the \u201cidolatrous temptation\u201d of the faith. <\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIt drives us to seek God for our own use, to solve our problems, for our own interests. But in this way faith remains superficial and even, if I may say so, faith remains mystical: we look for God to feed us and then forget about Him when we are satisfied.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The Pope says that a faith which is motivated by one's own needs and desires risks being empty, and that by welcoming Jesus into our lives we can develop a faith that goes beyond self-interest. <\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe Lord wants a loving relationship with us: prior to the things we receive and do, we must love Him. There is a relationship with Him that goes beyond the logic of interest and calculation.\u201d<\/p>\n After praying the Angelus, the Pope greeted the pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square from around the world. He singled out a group from Peru to bless them after the election of their new president, Pedro Castillo. <\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI greet you, Peruvians, who have a new President. May the Lord bless your country always!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n There were also many Slovak flags present in St. Peter's Square at the Angelus, as pilgrims from Slovakia prepare to receive Pope Francis in their country next month. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n JM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Pope says that only through welcoming Jesus into our lives can Christians develop a faith that goes beyond self-interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":45012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xaHuGvgu6po","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelus0108eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelus0108int.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45011"}],"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=45011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}