{"id":49968,"date":"2017-12-05T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/12\/05\/pope-francis-in-santa-marta-humility-must-be-a-christian-lifestyle\/"},"modified":"2017-12-05T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T17:11:00","slug":"pope-francis-in-santa-marta-humility-must-be-a-christian-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/12\/05\/pope-francis-in-santa-marta-humility-must-be-a-christian-lifestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis in Santa Marta: Humility must be a Christian lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his homily at Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis said<strong> humility must be a Christian's lifestyle<\/strong>. He explained each person is a small sprout where the Spirit of the Lord has taken root.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cIt takes faith and humility to believe this sprout, this small gift will grow to the fullness of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. It takes humility to believe the Father, the Lord of Heaven and Earth, as today's Gospel states, has hidden these things from the wise, from the learned, and revealed them to the little ones.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>To conclude, the pope assured being humble doesn't mean being polite or courteous. The <strong>humble one is he or she who is able to accept humiliation<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>EXCERPTS FROM POPE FRANCIS' HOMILY<br \/>\n(Source: Vatican Radio)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cBeing aware that each one of us is a sprout of that root which must grow, with the power of the Holy Spirit, to the fullness of the Holy Spirit within us. What is the Christian's task? To safeguard this sprout, this growth which is the Spirit.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt takes faith and humility to believe this sprout, this small gift will grow to the fullness of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. It takes humility to believe the Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, as today's Gospel states, has hidden these things from the wise, from the learned, and revealed them to the little ones. Humility is to be small, like the sprout that grows little by little to the fullness of life through the Holy Spirit.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere is a sign, a unique signal: accepting humiliation. Humility without humiliation is not humility. The humble one is he or she who is able to accept humiliations like Jesus, the great humiliated.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Lord grants us this grace to safeguard this smallness towards the fullness of the Spirit without forgetting the root and by accepting humiliation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 5, 2017. \u201cIt takes humility to believe the Father has hidden these things from the wise and revealed them to the little ones,\u201d the pope said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/S1w5ASo7R8I","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta0512eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta0512int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49968"}],"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=49968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}