{"id":29113,"date":"2013-11-01T07:57:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T11:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=29113"},"modified":"2013-11-01T10:04:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T14:04:13","slug":"pope-francis-prayer-intentions-for-november-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/pope-francis-prayer-intentions-for-november-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis&#8217; prayer intentions for November 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Francis-and-cardinal-deacons-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29115 alignleft\" alt=\"Francis and cardinal deacons 2013\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Francis-and-cardinal-deacons-2013-300x201.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Francis-and-cardinal-deacons-2013-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Francis-and-cardinal-deacons-2013.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Catholics connect real well with devotions because pious gestures and prayers speak to the heart in simple and yet a very profound ways. I would contend that the spiritual life is comprised of Mass, faithful reception of sacraments, lectio divina, work, study, companionship, devotions (a holy hour, adoration of the Sacrament, rosary, prayer for the Pope\u2019s monthly intentions,\u00a0etc.). It would seem to me that a vigorous Catholic faith requires a devotional life to &#8220;keep life human.&#8221; Prayer is being in friendship with God; prayer also opens our hearts and minds for others.<\/p>\n<p><em>The general intention<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That priests who experience difficulties may find comfort in their suffering, support in their doubts, and confirmation in their fidelity.<\/p>\n<p><em>The missionary intention<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That as fruit of the continental mission, Latin American Churches may send missionaries to other Churches.<\/p>\n<p><em>For reflection<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What are you doing in support of priests you know who are struggling? Why are missionary vocations a sign of the health of the Church?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholics connect real well with devotions because pious gestures and prayers speak to the heart in simple and yet a very profound ways. I would contend that the spiritual life is comprised of Mass, faithful reception of sacraments, lectio divina, work, study, companionship, devotions (a holy hour, adoration of the Sacrament, rosary, prayer for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/pope-francis-prayer-intentions-for-november-2013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pope Francis&#8217; prayer intentions for November 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\/29113"}],"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=29113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29116,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29113\/revisions\/29116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}