In his homily at Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis invites Christians to pray with faith, perseverance and courage at this time of difficulty due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> The pope asked Christians to reflect on how to pray, and to pray with faith that the Lord will intervene. Pope Francis' remembered that 'God does not disappoint.'<\/p>\n EXTRACTS OF PAPAL HOMILY <\/strong><\/p>\n |(Source: Vatican Media) <\/p>\n \u201cMany times prayer is only oral from the mouth\u2026but it doesn't come from the faith in the heart, or it's a weak faith.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFaith and prayer; to pray with faith\u2026. I pray either with faith or out of habit. Let's be attentive when we pray not to fall into routine, without the awareness that the Lord is here, that I'm speaking with the Lord and He is able to resolve problems.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSome people ask and then the grace doesn't come. They don't have this perseverance because deep down they don't need it or they don\u2019t have faith\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cFaith and perseverance go together because if you have faith you're sure that the Lord will give you what you are asking. If the Lord makes you wait, knock and knock and knock. In the end the Lord gives the grace.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c \u2018Is courage necessary to pray?\u2019, someone might think. To remain before the Lord: yes, it\u2019s necessary. It\u2019s almost, almost, I don\u2019t want to say a heresy, but almost as if we're threatening the Lord. Moses\u2019s courage before God when God wanted to destroy the people\u2026. Abraham\u2019s courage when he negotiates the salvation of Sodom. \u2018What if there are 30? What if there are 20?\u2019 Courage. This virtue of courage is very much needed, not only for apostolic works, but also for prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFaith, perseverance and courage. In these days, it's necessary to pray more. Imagine if we were to pray like this. With faith \u2013 that the Lord can intervene; with perseverance and with courage. The Lord never deludes. He makes us wait. He takes His time. But he never deludes. Faith, perseverance and courage.\u201d<\/p>\n Daniel D\u00edaz Vizzi March 23, 2020. He invites people to reflect on how to pray, and to pray with faith that the Lord will intervene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zomF9odkYiI","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bsantamartahomilia2303eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bsantamartahomilia2303int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46853"}],"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=46853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFaith and perseverance go together, because if you have faith, you are sure the Lord will give you what you ask. If the Lord makes you wait, knock, knock, knock and God will give the grace. But the Lord does not act like this to make it more interesting or because he says, 'it's better he waits.' No. He does it for our own good, so that we take things seriously.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nTranslation: Melissa Butz<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"