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Walking more closely together 03 July 2021
On Monday, 28 June, Pope Francis received in audience a Delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Private Library of the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace as part of the traditional exchange of greetings to mark the respective Feasts of the Patron Saints (29 June in Rome for Saints Peter and Paul, and 30 November in Istanbul for Saint Andrew). The Delegation was led by Metropolitan Bishop Emmanuel Adamakis of Chalcedon, who greeted the Holy Father at the beginning of the encounter. Also present were Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion o
Pope Francis: Prayer Is ‘the Church’s Essential Task’
14 Apr 2021
ROME The Church’s essential task is praying and teaching others to pray, Pope Francis declared during his weekly General Audience on Wednesday.
Prayer is “the breath of faith,” the pontiff stated during his live-streamed address from the Library of the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, and “we grow in faith inasmuch as we learn to pray.”
“After certain passages in life, we become aware that without faith we could not have made it and that our strength was prayer – not only personal prayer, but also that of our brothers and sisters, and of the community that accompanied and supported us, of the people who know us, of the people we ask to pray for us,” he added.
Edwin’s death was akin to Good Friday 29 January 2021
“Let us think of what this 46-year-old man felt, in the cold, ignored by everyone, abandoned, even by us”, Pope Francis said at the Angelus on Sunday, 24 January, as he recalled the tragic story of Edwin, a homeless Nigerian man who was found dead a few days ago near Saint Peter’s Square. Earlier the Pope had commented on the day’s Gospel passage from Mark in which John the Baptist “passes the baton” to Jesus. The following is a translation of the Holy Father’s reflection which he shared in Italian from the Private Library of the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace.
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A year of peace and hope 08 January 2021
Pope Francis calls for an end to violence in Yemen and offers special prayers for the country’s children
As he addressed the faithful from the Private Library of the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace during the Angelus on Friday, 1 January, Pope Francis expressed his wish that 2021 be a “year of fraternal solidarity and peace for all; a year filled with trusting expectation and hope”. The following is a translation of the Holy Father’s reflection, which he offered in Italian.