During his homily at Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis speaks of Jesus, when He says Christians must put their trust in the Lord, not base their lives on appearances.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> The pope urges Christians to convert their lives so they do not crumble away without faith.<\/p>\n SUMMARY OF POPE'S HOMILY:<\/strong><\/p>\n Source: Vatican News<\/p>\n The Rock. That\u2019s what the Lord is. Those who entrust themselves to the Lord will always remain safe, because their foundations are sunk into the Rock. That\u2019s what Jesus says in the Gospel. He speaks about a wise man who built his house on rock, that is, on trust in the Lord and on serious things. And this trust is a noble thing, because the foundation of this building of our lives is sure and strong.<\/p>\n Even in our own lives, it can happen when my foundations are not strong. The storm comes \u2013 and we all have storms in our lives, all of us \u2013 and we are unable to stand firm. Many say: \u201cNo, I\u2019ll change my life.\u2019\u201dThey think making life changes is like putting on makeup. Changing my life requires changing the foundations of my life, that is, finding the Rock that is Christ. \u201cI would like to renovate this building because it\u2019s extremely ugly, so I would like to make it a little more beautiful and strengthen the foundation.\u201d But if all I do is put on makeup, then things won\u2019t go far; it will fall. Christian life falls when based on appearances.<\/p>\n We cannot build our lives on passing things, on appearances, on acting like everything is going fine. We go to the rock, where our salvation awaits. And there we will all \u2013 each one of us \u2013 be happy.<\/p>\n Rachel Dobrzynski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 5, 2019. During his homily at Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis reminds Christians to build their life on the eternal Rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/t8wmj_RMrho","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta0512eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta0512int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47308"}],"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=47308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cThe Rock. That\u2019s what the Lord is. Those who entrust themselves to the Lord will always remain safe, because their foundations are sunk into the Rock. That\u2019s what Jesus says in the Gospel. He speaks about a wise man who built his house on rock, that is, on trust in the Lord and on serious things. And this trust is a noble thing, because the foundation of this building of our lives is sure and strong.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n