Pope Francis has left the Vatican to celebrate Mass in the Basilica of St. Mary Major. <\/p>\n
There he commemorated the centenary of the creation of the Pontifical Oriental Institute and the Congregation for Oriental Churches in 1917<\/strong> by Pope Benedict XV.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS Pope Francis asked the participants never to allow their doubts to be greater than their faith<\/strong>. He explained that even the Blessed Mother had doubts, but had faith.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS Pope Francis explained that the dedication of each person to prayer will give each one 'fruit in due time.'<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the centenary of the Congregation for Oriental Churches, the pope lamented religious persecution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":28241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6CYRnkcMbVQ","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bchiesaorientaleeng.mov","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bchiesaorientaleint.mov","type":"none","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50202"}],"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=50202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>\u201cThen the First World War broke out; today - as I have already said - we are living another World War, a piecemeal war. We see many of our Christian brothers and sisters in the Oriental Churches experiencing dramatic persecution and an increasingly disturbing diaspora.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cWhen praying, we need the courage of faith: to have confidence that the Lord will listen to us, the courage to knock on the door. The Lord says, 'everyone who asks, receives; those who seek, find; and to those who knock, the door will be opened.' Man knocks with prayer at God's door to ask for grace. And He, who is a Father, gives me that and more: the gift, the Holy Spirit.'<\/em><\/p>\n