{"id":49775,"date":"2018-01-21T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2018\/01\/21\/pope-to-cloistered-nuns-may-your-prayer-bring-the-misery-of-men-to-god\/"},"modified":"2018-01-21T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T17:56:00","slug":"pope-to-cloistered-nuns-may-your-prayer-bring-the-misery-of-men-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2018\/01\/21\/pope-to-cloistered-nuns-may-your-prayer-bring-the-misery-of-men-to-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope to cloistered nuns: \"May your prayer bring the misery of men to God\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis began his<strong> last day in Peru <\/strong>accompanied by <strong>500 Peruvian nuns<\/strong> from various contemplative life monasteries. He prayed the Liturgy of the Hours with them in the Shrine of the Lord of Miracles, the patron saint of Peru.<\/p>\n<p>After a greeting by Mother Soledad, Superior of the Carmelite Sisters, the pope gave them a brief homily, but first he <strong>joked with the sisters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>'Seeing you here, I get the impression that you took advantage of this visit to get out for some fresh air!'<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The pope told them their life-long dedication to prayer goes far beyond the walls of their convents, because they do incredible good for the people for whom <strong>they pray<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>'You are like the friends who brought the paralytic to the Lord for healing. They were not embarrassed, they were unashamed. They were not embarrassed to make a hole in the roof and lower the paralytic. Be without shame, do not be ashamed to pray that the misery of men is overcome by the power of God.'<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He recognized that their prayers<strong> heal the wounds of countless people<\/strong>. For that reason, he invited the religious to always have an open heart.<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>'For this very reason we can affirm that cloistered life neither closes nor shrinks our hearts, but rather widens them. Woe to the nun who has a shrunken heart! Please look for a remedy. You cannot be a contemplative nun with a shrunken heart. Try to breathe again and have a big heart again.'<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Finally, he asked them to<strong> take care of the ambience inside the convent<\/strong>, in order to avoid becoming \u2018terrorist nuns,\u2019 gossiping and destroying everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 21, 2018. He met with 500 cloistered nuns in the Shrine of the Lord of Miracles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5pWAtuz5s_U","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapayreligiosasperueng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapayreligiosasperuint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49775"}],"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=49775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}