At the General Audience, Pope Francis reflected on St. Paul's tireless missionary work in preaching the Gospel in Rome, despite being a prisoner.<\/p>\n
He reminded Christians that God's word \u201ccan never be chained.\u201d He urged them to ask for the grace to make their communities places of fraternity and encounter with the Lord.<\/p>\n
SUMMARY OF CATECHESIS IN ENGLISH<\/strong><\/p>\n Dear Brothers and Sisters: <\/p>\n Today we conclude our catechesis on the Acts of the Apostles with Paul\u2019s arrival in Rome, in chains, to appeal his case to Caesar. As we have seen, Saint Luke\u2019s account of the spread of the Gospel largely coincides with Paul\u2019s missionary journeys. In Rome, Paul is welcomed by the Christian community and permitted to remain under house arrest. <\/p>\n Luke ends the Book of Acts not with Paul\u2019s martyrdom but by describing his tireless proclamation of the Gospel, showing the power of God\u2019s word which can never be chained. Paul\u2019s missionary journeys, culminating in this City, reveal the power of God\u2019s grace to open hearts to the Gospel and its saving message. <\/p>\n Having in these past months followed the spread of the Good News throughout the world, let us ask the Holy Spirit to renew in each one of us the call to be courageous and joyful missionary disciples of Christ. In this way, we \u2013 in the footsteps of Paul \u2013 will fill our world with the Gospel and make our communities places of fraternity where all can encounter the risen Lord.<\/p>\n I greet the English-speaking pilgrims and visitors taking part in today\u2019s Audience, especially the groups from Finland and the United States of America. Upon you and your families, I invoke the joy and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ. May God bless you!<\/p>\n Claudia Torres<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 15, 2020. Pope Francis reflected on St. Paul's tireless work to preach the Gospel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FAZEpT-p_FA","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bncudienza1501eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bncudienza1501int.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47148"}],"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=47148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}