{"id":49635,"date":"2018-02-23T17:35:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T16:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2018\/02\/23\/pope-francis-finishes-spiritual-exercises-returns-by-bus-to-rome\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T08:47:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T06:47:25","slug":"pope-francis-finishes-spiritual-exercises-returns-by-bus-to-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2018\/02\/23\/pope-francis-finishes-spiritual-exercises-returns-by-bus-to-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis finishes spiritual exercises, returns by bus to Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis has completed his spiritual exercises, five days of prayer in a house just outside of Rome.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When Fr. Jos\u00e9 Tolentino de Mendon\u00e7a gave his final meditation, <strong>the pope thanked him on behalf of everyone. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cThank you also for having asked us not to belittle our people with our bureaucratic mundanity. Thank you for having reminded us that the Church is not a cage for the Holy Spirit, that the Holy Spirit also flies out and works outside.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In addition, the pope asked him to continue praying for those who had participated in the spiritual exercises.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cThank you, Father. Keep praying for us. As the Mother Superior used to say to her nuns, 'We're men, we're all sinners.' Thank you, Father, may the Lord bless you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Holy Father returned to the Vatican on a bus with the rest of the cardinals and bishops. He prayed before reaching the highway. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once in the Vatican, Pope Francis bid farewell to each of the clergy as they got off the bus.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23 de febrero, 2018. \u201cAs the Mother Superior used to say to her nuns, 'We're men, we're all sinners,'\u201d the pope joked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/A8MD28JXyWo","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49635"}],"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=49635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}