{"id":54672,"date":"2015-10-26T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2015\/10\/26\/pope-celebrates-mass-to-mark-the-end-of-the-synod-on-the-family\/"},"modified":"2015-10-26T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T14:00:00","slug":"pope-celebrates-mass-to-mark-the-end-of-the-synod-on-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2015\/10\/26\/pope-celebrates-mass-to-mark-the-end-of-the-synod-on-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope celebrates Mass to mark the end of the Synod on the Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Synod on the Family officialy came to a close with this Mass in St. Peter's Basilica. Hundreds of Bishops in Rome for the Synod, attended the Mass, led by Pope Francis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his homily, he thanked the Synod for the three week meeting on families. He also warned against a so called 'scheduled faith' where one walks with the people of God, but with their eyes fixed on a pre-set path.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n'We know where to go and how long it will take; everyone must respect our rhythm and every problem is a bother. \u00a0We run the risk of becoming the 'many\u00e2?\u009d of the Gospel who lose patience.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>With Bishops from all over the world, seated in the front pews, the Pope also highlighted the need to stay away from what he descibed as a 'spirituality of illusion.'\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n'We can walk through the deserts of humanity without seeing what is really there; instead, we see what we want to see. \u00a0We are capable of developing views of the world, but we do not accept what the Lord places before our eyes.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>After the Mass, Pope Francis made his way to his studio window overlooking St. Peter's Square, where he led the Angelus prayer along with tens of thousands of pilgrims.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n'It was very tiring, but it was a true gift from God that will surely bare a lot of fruit.\u00e2?\u009d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the day's readings and the Synod, the Pope highlighted the need to walk along with families, including migrant famlies who flee from violence and persecution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>KLH\u00a0<br \/>\nCTV<br \/>\nSV<br \/>\n-BN<br \/>\nUp:AC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 26, 2015. The Pope warned against falling into a 'spiritual illusion.' ;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":33757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/NQ-tGNw41Hk","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54672"}],"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=54672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}