{"id":28602,"date":"2013-10-01T05:53:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T09:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=28602"},"modified":"2013-09-30T19:56:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T23:56:27","slug":"pope-franciss-prayer-intentions-for-october-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/pope-franciss-prayer-intentions-for-october-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis&#8217;s prayer intentions for October 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Pope-Francis-praying.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28603 alignleft\" title=\"Pope Francis praying\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Pope-Francis-praying-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Pope-Francis-praying-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Pope-Francis-praying.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The honest Christian\u2019s life tells us that prayer is not the end; rather, Christian&#8217;s know prayer is a means to an end. The saints teach us this fact.\u00a0 And what is that end? Jesus Christ! The aim of every serious Christian is not only to be in a relationship with Jesus, but to be shaped into him \u2013 to be another Christ. The sacred Scripture reveals this, the sacraments nourish this, daily living demonstrates this. Here are the Holy Father\u2019s prayer intentions for October.<\/p>\n<p><em>The general intention<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That those feeling so crushed by life that they wish to end it may sense the nearness of God\u2019s love.<\/p>\n<p><em>The mission intention<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That the celebration of World Mission Day may help all Christians realize that we are not only receivers but proclaimers of God\u2019s word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The honest Christian\u2019s life tells us that prayer is not the end; rather, Christian&#8217;s know prayer is a means to an end. The saints teach us this fact.\u00a0 And what is that end? Jesus Christ! The aim of every serious Christian is not only to be in a relationship with Jesus, but to be shaped &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/pope-franciss-prayer-intentions-for-october-2013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pope Francis&#8217;s prayer intentions for October 2013<\/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":[84],"tags":[3070],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28602"}],"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=28602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28604,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28602\/revisions\/28604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}