Pope Francis focused his catechesis on liturgical prayer. He said the liturgy is an important place of encounter with Christ.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS The pope lamented that some Christians reject community ceremonies and focus instead on a personal spirituality that is much too isolated. He said it\u2019s important to rediscover the meaning of the Mass and the sacraments.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/em><\/strong> \u2018But Father, that\u2019s an idea. It\u2019s just an expression.\u2019 No. It\u2019s not just an expression. Christ is present. In the liturgy you pray with Christ at your side.<\/em><\/p>\n Pope Francis seemed a little tired.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, he has many projects on his agenda, from the spiritual exercises in mid-February to a trip to Iraq in early March.<\/p>\n At the end of his catechesis he reminded the faithful that Thursday, Feb. 4, will be the first International Day of Human Fraternity. He encouraged participation in the project to work toward a more united world.<\/p>\n Javier Romero<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 3, 2021.He lamented that there are Christians who reject community celebrations like the Sunday Mass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9XeP4kz_tqc","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza0302eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza0302int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45679"}],"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=45679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>A Christianity without liturgy. I dare say it perhaps would be a Christianity without Christ, without a complete Christ.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nWhen I go to Sunday Mass, I go to pray as part of a community, to pray with Christ, who is present. <\/em><\/p>\n