In his daily homily at Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis noted how the world does not spread news of and even hides modern-day martyrdom. <\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS He invited Christians to not to fall into the temptation of becoming \u201ca Church of events.\u201d He said the Church silently grows out of the \u201cEucharist and good works.\u201d<\/p>\n EXTRACTS FROM PAPAL HOMILY (Source: Vatican News)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe Lord explains to us how the Church grows with the parable of the sower. The sower sows and the seed grows by day, by night - God gives the growth \u2013 and then the fruit is seen. But this is important: First, the Church grows in silence, in secret; it is the ecclesiastical style. And how is this manifested in the Church? By the fruits of good works, so that the people see and glorify the Father who is in heaven, Jesus says. And in the celebration, the praise and the sacrifice of the Lord \u2013 that is, in the Eucharist. There the Church is manifested: in the Eucharist and in good works.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe Lord helps us to not fall into the temptation of seduction. 'We want the Church to be seen more; what can we do so that it will be seen?' So usually one falls into a Church of events that is not capable of growing in silence with good works, in secret.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe Cross and suffering. The Church grows also with the blood of the martyrs, men and women who give their lives. Today there are many [martyrs]. It\u2019s strange; they don\u2019t make the news. The world hides this fact. The spirit of the world does not tolerate martyrdom; it hides it.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November 15th, 2018. He said the Church grows out of the Eucharist and good works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":27209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6Hdxqs8SmfM","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta1511eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta1511int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48708"}],"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=48708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>\u201cThe Church grows also with the blood of the martyrs, men and women who give their lives. Today there are many martyrs. It\u2019s strange; they don\u2019t make the news. The world hides this fact. The spirit of the world does not tolerate martyrdom; it hides it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n