{"id":24336,"date":"2009-02-16T11:30:11","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T15:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/the-popes-brief-thoughts-on-th\/"},"modified":"2009-02-16T11:30:11","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T15:30:11","slug":"the-popes-brief-thoughts-on-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/the-popes-brief-thoughts-on-th\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pope&#8217;s brief thoughts on the sacred Liturgy, prayer and belief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Pope Benedict spoke of &#8220;teaching the art of prayer, encouraging participation in the liturgy and the Sacraments, wise and relevant preaching, catechetical instruction, and spiritual and moral guidance. From this foundation faith flourishes in Christian virtue, and gives rise to vibrant parishes and generous service to the wider community&#8221; to the Nigerian bishops making their ad limina.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Later the Pope said: &#8220;The celebration of the liturgy is a privileged source of renewal in Christian living&#8221; and &#8220;to maintain the proper balance between moments of contemplation and external gestures of participation and joy in the Lord&#8221;.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict spoke of &#8220;teaching the art of prayer, encouraging participation in the liturgy and the Sacraments, wise and relevant preaching, catechetical instruction, and spiritual and moral guidance. From this foundation faith flourishes in Christian virtue, and gives rise to vibrant parishes and generous service to the wider community&#8221; to the Nigerian bishops making their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/the-popes-brief-thoughts-on-th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Pope&#8217;s brief thoughts on the sacred Liturgy, prayer and belief<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,32],"tags":[1713,1791,1792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}