{"id":57921,"date":"2017-03-06T16:51:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T15:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/03\/06\/pope-francis-and-the-curia-depart-rome-to-begin-spiritual-exercises\/"},"modified":"2017-03-06T16:51:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T15:51:35","slug":"pope-francis-and-the-curia-depart-rome-to-begin-spiritual-exercises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/03\/06\/pope-francis-and-the-curia-depart-rome-to-begin-spiritual-exercises\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis and the Curia depart Rome to begin spiritual exercises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 4:00 p.m. Sunday afternoon, the pope and other superiors of the Vatican Curia boarded this bus for Ariccia to begin their spiritual exercises. ;<\/p>\n<p>This year's theme is the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Christ, according to the Gospel of St. Matthew. The preacher of the exercises will be the Franciscan Giulio Michelini.<\/p>\n<p>The pope and the other participants will begin each day by celebrating mass at 7:30 p.m. in the morning. They will attend two daily meditations, pray Vespers together, and end the day with Eucharistic adoration before dinner at 7:30 p.m. They are scheduled to return to Rome on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The tradition of the pope and the curia doing Lenten spiritual exercises was initiated by Pope Paul VI in 1964. Among the preachers, two of them ended up becoming pope: Karol Wojtyla in 1976, and Joseph Ratzinger in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>JRB\/JC<br \/>\nCTV<br \/>\n- F<br \/>\n-BN<br \/>\nUp:JC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 6, 2017. The pope will not have any audiences until March 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":40740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/jar973M5iYA","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/besercizispiritualiint.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57921"}],"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=57921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}