The blood of St. Januarius, the patron saint of Naples, was placed front and center during a meeting with Pope Francis. Priests, nuns, and other religious received the Pope with great excitement. <\/p>\n
The archbishop even allowed religious from seven cloistered convents to go out.\u00a0 \t <\/p>\n
Excited religious overtook protocol and approached the Pope, causing some funny and endearing confusion. \t <\/p>\n
'Sisters, later! Sisters, later! And these are the closers. If they were not closers, what would happen? ' \t <\/em><\/p>\n As he often does, Pope Francis gave some advice to the religious so that they could improve their relationship with God and create fraternity. \t <\/p>\n He reminded them that they should always follow the path of Jesus by not giving in to temptation. The Pope also sent a special message to the seminarians. \t <\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS During his impromptu speech, the Pope asked the religious to avoid diseases such worldliness or gossip. \t\t <\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS Before leaving, he prayed the Our Father, kissed the relic of St. Januarius, and said the blessing with it in hand. And the solidified blood became liquid. \t\t <\/p>\n ARCH. CRESCENZIO SEPE And in that moment, the blood wasn't liquid at all. With humor, the Pope made this recommendation.\u00a0 \t\t <\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS The phenomenon of the liquefaction of the saint's blood has not happened in the presence of a Pope since 1848. John Paul II and Benedict XVI did not do it during their visits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 21, 2015.\u00a0The Pope denounced \"the terrorism of gossip\u00e2?\u009d among the religious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":52777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/7RvJpplJIFg","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/bincontroreligiosiint.mov","type":"none","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52776"}],"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=52776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>'If Jesus is not central, postpone ordination. If you are not sure that Jesus is the center of your life, wait a little longer.' \t<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>'It is the 'terrorism of gossip' because gossip is a terrorist who throws a bomb, destroys, and leaves.'<\/em><\/p>\n
\nArchbishop of Naples <\/strong>
\n'The sign that San Gennaro loves the Pope, who is Neapolitan like us: the blood is already liquid.' \t <\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>'It seems that the saint loves us a little bit. We have to convert a little more for him to love us completely.'<\/em><\/p>\n