{"id":51098,"date":"2014-08-06T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2014\/08\/06\/pope-s-general-audience-don-t-forget-to-pray-the-beatitudes\/"},"modified":"2014-08-06T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T10:24:00","slug":"pope-s-general-audience-don-t-forget-to-pray-the-beatitudes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2014\/08\/06\/pope-s-general-audience-don-t-forget-to-pray-the-beatitudes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope's General Audience: Don't forget to pray the Beatitudes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(-ONLY VIDEO-) Pope Francis held his first general audience of August, in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall. As part of his catehchesis, the Pope described the Church as the People of God, adding that praying the Beatitudes are an essential part of Christian life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>EXCERPT OF THE POPE'S CATECHESIS<\/p>\n<p>Dear Brothers and Sisters,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In today\u00e2??s Audience we resume our catechesis on the Church, the People of God. \u00a0Prepared for in the Old Testament and established by Christ in the fullness of time, the Church is a new people, founded on a new covenant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The newness brought by Christ does not set aside what went before, but brings it to completion. \u00a0In the Scriptures, Saint John the Baptist is a bridge between the prophecies and promises of the Old Testament and their fulfillment in the New.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>John points to Jesus and calls us to follow him in repentance and conversion. \u00a0The new law which Jesus gives in the Sermon on the Mount perfects the law given to Moses on Mount Sinai. \u00a0In the Beatitudes, Jesus shows us the way in which, with his grace, we can attain authentic happiness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0He tells us, in the Gospel of Matthew, that our Christian life will be judged on how we treat him in the least of our brethren. \u00a0At the heart of the new covenant is our realization that, in Christ, we are embraced by God\u00e2??s mercy and compassion, and that our lives must bear witness to his love for all our brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n<p>PM<br \/>\nCTV<br \/>\nVM<br \/>\n-BN<br \/>\nUp: PM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 6, 2014. ;In his weekly general audience, the Pope explained why the Beatitudes are a key part of Christian life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":30093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/GBGppCgyut8","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/bnc0608int.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51098"}],"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=51098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}