{"id":29487,"date":"2013-12-01T06:40:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T10:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=29487"},"modified":"2013-12-02T10:42:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T14:42:37","slug":"pope-francis-prayer-intentions-for-december-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/pope-francis-prayer-intentions-for-december-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis&#8217; prayer intentions for December 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Pope-with-people-in-St-Cyril-church-Rome.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29488 alignleft\" alt=\"Pope with people in St Cyril church Rome\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Pope-with-people-in-St-Cyril-church-Rome-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Pope-with-people-in-St-Cyril-church-Rome-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Pope-with-people-in-St-Cyril-church-Rome.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>December is now with us and it means attending to the work of keeping watch with Christ. What is meant by attending means being awake, open, and teachable. The way we approach things is crucial in the life of faith. We are motivated by the singleness of purpose as in walking the path to salvation in hope and in humility. The papal intentions for December are poignant: for children victimized by adults lacking in love and for the entire Church to prepare once again for the entrance of the Savior into history.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer is the openness to God that expands our capacity to love.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The missionary intention<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That children who are victims of abandonment or violence may find the love and protection they need.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The general intention<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That Christians, enlightened by the Word incarnate, may prepare humanity for the Savior\u2019s coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December is now with us and it means attending to the work of keeping watch with Christ. What is meant by attending means being awake, open, and teachable. The way we approach things is crucial in the life of faith. We are motivated by the singleness of purpose as in walking the path to salvation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/pope-francis-prayer-intentions-for-december-2013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pope Francis&#8217; prayer intentions for December 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\/29487"}],"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=29487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29489,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29487\/revisions\/29489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}