{"id":50163,"date":"2017-10-22T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/10\/22\/despite-travel-delays-this-family-meets-pope-francis\/"},"modified":"2017-10-22T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T10:30:00","slug":"despite-travel-delays-this-family-meets-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/10\/22\/despite-travel-delays-this-family-meets-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite travel delays, this family meets Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>They arrived late to the Audience<\/strong> due to a bus delay and listened to the pope\u2019s catechism from the center of the square.<\/p>\n<p>However, there was a surprise in store for them. The family was lucky enough to get close to Pope Francis after the meeting and receive <strong>his blessing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em> \u201cHe shook our hands. I kissed his hand. He blessed my youngest son, me, my oldest\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>They came from Rimini, on a pilgrimage organized by their parish. The pilgrimage is organized for the young people who are preparing for confirmation in the parish, like this family's eldest son.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They say it was a very powerful experience filled with many deep emotions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em> \u201cIt filled me with joy, with\u2026 I feel better. I can\u2019t explain it\u2026 I\u2019m speechless.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The pope\u2019s homily made them reflect on humility and reminded them that they must be at the service of those who are most in need.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This was the first time this family met Pope Francis<\/strong>, but they enthusiastically say that they hope it won't be the last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 22, 2017. A family traveled to Rome from Rimini, a city on the Adriatic coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":28148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cXp7l3xB2RE","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/brandomitalianieng.mov","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/brandomitalianiint.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50163"}],"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=50163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}