{"id":48643,"date":"2018-12-03T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2018\/12\/03\/pope-in-angelus-self-centeredness-exhausts-bores-and-closes-one-to-hope\/"},"modified":"2018-12-03T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T11:32:00","slug":"pope-in-angelus-self-centeredness-exhausts-bores-and-closes-one-to-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2018\/12\/03\/pope-in-angelus-self-centeredness-exhausts-bores-and-closes-one-to-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope in Angelus: Self-centeredness exhausts, bores, and closes one to hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Catholic Church has begun the time of preparation for Christmas.<\/p>\n

From St. Peter's Square, during the Angelus prayer, the pope offered advice. He said Advent is a perfect period to abandon selfish ways of life that in fact chain down and deplete a person.<\/p>\n

POPE FRANCIS<\/strong>
\n'This Sunday's Gospel goes precisely in that direction and puts us on-guard against being oppressed by an egocentric lifestyle or the convulsive rhythm of the day. This exhausts, bores, and closes one to hope.'<\/em><\/p>\n

Before the 20,000 pilgrims present in St. Peter's Square, the Pope said that thinking too much about one's problems has a risk: that of forgetting others.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

December 3, 2018. The pope gave advice to prepare for Christmas. He said it is a good time to change ways of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":27026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tYdVv-t7LIU","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelus0212eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelus0212int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48643"}],"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=48643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}