{"id":51397,"date":"2014-10-03T19:12:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T17:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2014\/10\/03\/pope-francis-the-priestly-vocation-is-a-treasure\/"},"modified":"2014-10-03T19:12:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T17:12:13","slug":"pope-francis-the-priestly-vocation-is-a-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2014\/10\/03\/pope-francis-the-priestly-vocation-is-a-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: The priestly vocation is a treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis met with members of the Congregation of the Clergy.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Beniamino Stella, prefect of the dicastery, explained to the Pope how the dicastery has functioned since assuming jurisdiction of the seminaries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Pope told them that the vocation to the priesthood is a treasure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n'Taking the image from the Gospel of Matthew, I would like to compare the vocation of the ordainted ministry to the'treasure hidden in the field\u00e2?\u009d. It is truly a treasure that God has always placed in the hearts of some men, chosen by Him in this special state in life.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis insisted that they must pay attention to vocations. He said that are a 'diamond in the rough\u00e2?\u009d that must be worked with care through formation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After his address, he suggested to conclude the meeting with the Angelus prayer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>'It's 12:30pm. We can pray the Angelus.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Since January 2013, the Congregation for the Clergy has handled the seminaries. Benedict XVI modified the Apostolic Constitution 'Pastor Bonus\u00e2?\u009d to transfer jurisdiction from the Congregation for Catholic Education.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>AC\/JAE<br \/>\nCTV<br \/>\nFA<br \/>\n-BN<br \/>\nUp: YJA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 3, 2014. He held a meeting with the Congregation of the Clergy. ;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":30758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/0JVnH92YxjQ","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/bcongregazionecleroint.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51397"}],"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=51397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}