{"id":18250,"date":"2023-10-06T14:43:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T14:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=18250"},"modified":"2023-10-06T14:44:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T14:44:21","slug":"vatican-synod-pray-for-the-church-pope-francis-request-for-october-as-synod-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2023\/10\/06\/vatican-synod-pray-for-the-church-pope-francis-request-for-october-as-synod-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"VATICAN SYNOD: \u201cPray for the Church,\u201d Pope Francis\u2019 Request for October as Synod Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Holy Father has called upon Christians and all people across the globe to pray for the Church, especially during this month-long synod meeting aimed to discuss contemporary issues to guide the Church better.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nqgIrvcEKe8\">video clip<\/a> released just days before the commencement of the Synod, the Pope said, \u201cLet us pray for the Church that she may adopt a listening and dialogue as a style of life at every level, allowing herself to be guided by Holy Spirit towards the world\u2019s peripheries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Pope Francis praying for the Church is key to help her in missionary work and allowing the Holy Spirit to guide the Church.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThrough prayer and discernment, the Holy Spirit helps us carry out the apostolate of the ear that is listening with God\u2019s ears to speak with the word of God. Thus, we draw near to the heart of Christ,\u201d the Head of the Catholic Church said in part of his video clip adding, \u201cMission is at the Heart of the Church, and even more when the Church is in Synod.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Pope reveals that the Synod dynamics carry forward missionary vocation which is her mandate to proclaim the Gospel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI would like to recall that nothing ends here. Rather we are continuing an ecclesial journey here. This is a journey we are on, like the disciples of Emmaus listening to the Lord who always comes to meet us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Pope noted that the heart of the mission is \u201cto reach out to everyone, to seek everyone, to welcome everyone,\u00a0 to involve everyone, without excluding anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSA The Holy Father has called upon Christians and all people&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amecea-news","category-synod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18252,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18250\/revisions\/18252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}