{"id":50762,"date":"2014-06-09T16:22:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T14:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2014\/06\/09\/pope-at-regina-coeli-a-church-without-the-capacity-to-surprise-is-a-dying-church\/"},"modified":"2014-06-09T16:22:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T14:22:59","slug":"pope-at-regina-coeli-a-church-without-the-capacity-to-surprise-is-a-dying-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2014\/06\/09\/pope-at-regina-coeli-a-church-without-the-capacity-to-surprise-is-a-dying-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope at Regina Coeli: A Church without the capacity to surprise is a dying Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After celebrating Pentecost Mass, Pope Francis prayed the Regina Coeli before thousands of pilgrims at St. Peter's Square.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope explained that a fundamental element of the Pentecost is surprise, and that the Church must surprise everyone when announcing that Jesus overcome death.<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n'Listen up: if the Church is alive, it must always surprise. An aspect for the living Church is to surprise. A Church that doesn't have the capacity to surprise is a weak, sickened and dying Church. It must be taken to the recovery room, immediately.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The Pope explained that the Church of the Pentecost is not resigned to being bland, it doesn't strive to become a decorative element, and it doesn't think twice about going out and encountering people.<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n'She is born as one and universal, with a precise identity, but open. A Church that embraces the world, but does not capture it. She leaves it free, but she hugs it the way columns embrace this Square: two arms that open and take in, but do not hold back. We as Christians are free, and the Church wants us to be free!\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis also thanked pilgrims for their prayers of support for his meeting with the presidents of Israel and Palestine and the ecumenical patriarch, to pray for peace.<\/p>\n<p>YJA\/RCA<br \/>\nCTV<br \/>\nFA<br \/>\n-BN<br \/>\nUp: MAE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 9, 2014. ;On<br \/>\nPentecost Sunday, the Pope said that the Church wants Christians to<br \/>\nbe free.  ;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":29455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/3xM6MkQQKMY","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/breginacoeli0806int.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50762"}],"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=50762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}