During the General Audience, the pope helped understand the letter about St. Joseph he published this past Dec. 8.<\/p>\n
The letter commemorates the 150th anniversary of St. Joseph being named the patron saint of the universal Church.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> In his catechesis, Pope Francis reflected on the prayer of petition. He said we mustn't be ashamed to ask God for things.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS <\/strong> The pope invited the faithful to take advantage of Advent to concretely help people in need.<\/p>\n JMB<\/p>\n Translation: CT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 9, 2020. It highlights this saint's faith, courage and tenderness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/s8PQw9ZqRwE","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza0812eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza0812int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45920"}],"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=45920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cI titled it, 'With a Father's Heart.' God entrusted to him His most precious treasures: Jesus and Mary, and he responded fully with faith, with courage, with tenderness, with a father's heart.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u201cDo not be ashamed to pray. 'Lord, I need this,' 'Lord, I am in difficulty,' 'Help me!' It is the cry, the cry of the heart to God who is the Father.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n