{"id":54987,"date":"2015-12-30T13:25:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T12:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2015\/12\/30\/pope-francis-let-s-abandon-claims-of-autonomy-and-serve-others-to-find-happiness\/"},"modified":"2015-12-30T13:25:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T12:25:59","slug":"pope-francis-let-s-abandon-claims-of-autonomy-and-serve-others-to-find-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2015\/12\/30\/pope-francis-let-s-abandon-claims-of-autonomy-and-serve-others-to-find-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: Let's abandon claims of autonomy and serve others to find happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every Wednesday, during the general audience, pilgrims invent new strategies to greet the Pope. Just look at what these Colombian's did.<\/p>\n<p>During catechesis, the Pope spoke of Christmas, and said that to understand the meaning of this time of year we can gaze children.<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n'Although we know little about Jesus' childhood, we can learn a lot from him by observing \u00a0children\u00e2?\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>He recalled that all the children look into our eyes, they need to feel protected and cared for in our arms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n'Jesus also wants to be embraced by us, \u00a0that we \u00a0show Him our love and interest. So that we can abandon our claims of autonomy and welcome a true form of freedom, which is to recognize and serve those in front of us.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The Pope concluded with some advice for Christian's, who should not see the Nativity crib as a decorative object.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n'It would be nice that when we get home we approach the Nativity scene and kiss the baby Jesus, and say: Jesus, I want to be humble like you. Humble as God. And ask for that grace\u00e2?\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis prayed for the victims of a strong tornado in the US, the floods in Britain and flooding in Paraguay, where more than 140,000 people have been evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>It was the last \u00a0general audience of the year. The Pope took the opportunity to give gratitude for all of the Christmas cards he has received and to send a special blessing to those who are lonely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>YA<br \/>\nCTV<br \/>\nJM<br \/>\n- BN<br \/>\nUp: JMB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 30, 2015. He proposes to observe the children to better understand Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":34757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/zgDtveMMszU","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bud3012int.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54987"}],"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=54987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}