{"id":49869,"date":"2018-01-02T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2018\/01\/02\/pope-francis-prays-for-peace-in-world-in-his-first-mass-of-2018\/"},"modified":"2018-01-02T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T12:40:00","slug":"pope-francis-prays-for-peace-in-world-in-his-first-mass-of-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2018\/01\/02\/pope-francis-prays-for-peace-in-world-in-his-first-mass-of-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis prays for peace in world in his first Mass of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pope began the new year with this Mass in St. Peter's Basilica. He recalled that Catholics <strong>celebrate the Feast of \u201cHoly Mary, Mother of God\u201d on the first day of the year<\/strong> and gave a deep homily about the Mother of Jesus.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis reminded that<strong> God embodied Himself not only to be with us, but also to be like us<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cFrom the moment that our Lord became incarnate in Mary, and for all time, he took on our humanity. To call Mary the Mother of God reminds us of this: God is close to humanity, even as a child is close to the mother who bears him in her womb.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The pope said despite all of life's problems and difficulties, no one or anything can take away the assurance that every man and woman is a child of God and that God loves him or her. Thus, the Holy Father <strong>encouraged Christians to dedicate a few moments of silence<\/strong> each day to meditate on this reality.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cTo set aside a moment of silence each day to be with God is to 'keep' our soul; it is to 'keep' our freedom from being corroded by the banality of consumerism, the blare of commercials, the stream of empty words and the overpowering waves of empty chatter and loud shouting.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In addition, the pope<strong> asked the Blessed Mother to safeguard people's hearts<\/strong>, so they don't lose peace.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These three children, the \u201cStar Singers\u201d celebrating a German tradition, brought up the offerings. The singers go from house to house bestowing blessings, singing carols and asking for help for the poor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As is tradition, before leaving, Pope Francis kissed the figure of baby Jesus in the basilica.<\/p>\n<p>It was the World Day of Peace, which <strong>was dedicated this year to migrants and refugees<\/strong>. To commemorate, the pope published this dramatic photo. It's of a child in the aftermath of the Nagasaki atomic bomb who waits his turn at the crematorium to hand over his brother's corpse.<\/p>\n<p>On the backside, along with his signature, Pope Francis wrote the words \u201c...the outcome of war.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 2, 2018. \u201cTo set aside a moment of silence each day to be with God is to 'keep' our freedom from being corroded by the banality of consumerism, the blare of commercials,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IImo5u72vS8","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmessa1gennaioeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmessa1gennaioint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49869"}],"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=49869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}