This Wednesday Pope Francis held a general audience with pilgrims in-attendance for the first time in almost 7 months. <\/p>\n
His last Audience with pilgrims was held on October 28. <\/p>\n
Pope Francis wasn't wearing a mask, but he stopped to talk to people while keeping his distance. <\/p>\n
These children from Switzerland gave him a drawing of their family. The Pope joked with them saying that they needed to add a little sister to complete the picture. <\/p>\n
This pilgrim told the Pope about a difficult situation he faced, and could not contain his emotion. <\/p>\n
During his catechesis, the Pope expressed his joy in resuming his meetings with the people.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS Thank you for being here, and for the visit. Share the Pope's message with everyone. And the Pope's message is that I pray for everyone and I ask you to pray for me, united in prayer.<\/em><\/p>\n During the Audience, Pope Francis continued his catechesis on prayer, explaining that prayer is not easy, but that it is essential. He compared the experience of praying to a spiritual combat. <\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS The Pope also noted that prayer always yields results, even if they are not what is expected.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS The Pope also revived another tradition of his weekly audiences: meeting with sick pilgrims.<\/p>\n He stopped to greet them before leaving the audience.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Javier Martinez-Brocal<\/p>\n TR: Justin McLellan<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 12, 2021. \"I am happy to resume these encounters, face to face, because it is not pleasant to speak there alone in front of a camera,\" said the Pope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/I1Dc1u5sXAs","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza1205eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza1205int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45307"}],"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=45307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong> I am happy to resume these encounters, face to face. Because I tell you one thing... It's not pleasant to speak there alone, in front of a camera.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Yes, sometimes we ask for a grace that we need, but we ask for it like nothing, as if without desire, without fighting. That's not the way to ask for important things. Prayer is a struggle, but the Lord is always with us.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong> Prayer works miracles because it reaches into the heart of God's tenderness, who loves you like a father. And when He does not give us a grace, He gives us another grace that we will recognize in time. But always be sure to struggle in prayer when asking for grace. <\/em><\/p>\n