{"id":48382,"date":"2019-02-07T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2019\/02\/07\/pope-francis-in-santa-marta-a-good-word-patience-a-glance-can-heal\/"},"modified":"2019-02-07T16:42:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T15:42:00","slug":"pope-francis-in-santa-marta-a-good-word-patience-a-glance-can-heal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2019\/02\/07\/pope-francis-in-santa-marta-a-good-word-patience-a-glance-can-heal\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis in Santa Marta: a good word, patience, a glance can heal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his daily homily at Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis warned Christians never to feel superior. He said in order to help people open their hearts and convert to God one must be meek and humble.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cIf an apostle, an envoy, one of us goes - there are a lot of envoys here \u2013 with the head up in the air, believing himself superior to others, looking for some human interest or a place in the Church; he will never heal anyone, he will never be able to open anyone's heart, because his word will have no authority.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The pope concluded by saying everyone can heal one another \u201cwith a good word, with patience, with a glance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>EXTRACTS FROM POPE'S HOMILY <\/strong><br \/>\n(Source: Vatican News)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJesus recreated us from the root and then allowed us to move forward with his teaching, with his doctrine, a doctrine that heals\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConversion is the first step of healing in the sense that it opens the heart so that the Word of God may enter\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf an apostle, an envoy, one of us goes, with his nose in the air, believing himself superior to the others or because of self-interest looking for some human interest (\u2026) he will never heal anyone, he will never succeed in opening anyone's heart, because his word will have no authority\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemons flee before humility, before the power of Christ\u2019s name with which the apostle carries out his mission\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all need to be healed, and we can all heal others if we are humble and meek: with a good word, with patience, with a glance\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 7, 2019. He said in order to help people open their hearts and convert to God one must be meek and humble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":26297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/dYAaVatePEw","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta0702eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta0702int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48382"}],"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=48382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}