{"id":30520,"date":"2014-03-10T09:13:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T13:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=30520"},"modified":"2014-03-10T09:23:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T13:23:28","slug":"pope-and-the-curia-on-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/pope-and-the-curia-on-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope and the curia on retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Francis-and-curia-on-lenten-retreat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30521 alignleft\" alt=\"Francis and curia on lenten retreat\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Francis-and-curia-on-lenten-retreat-300x186.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Francis-and-curia-on-lenten-retreat-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Francis-and-curia-on-lenten-retreat-142x88.jpg 142w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Francis-and-curia-on-lenten-retreat.jpg 598w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The annual lenten retreat for the Pope and the curia is not at the Apostolic Palace. This year, the Spiritual Exercises are being given at a retreat house of the Pauline Family, in Ariccia [site of the composition of the\u00a0<i>Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World<\/i>\u00a0of Vatican II], a town about 20 miles southeast of Rome.\u00a0Msgr. Angelo De Donatis, a popular spiritual director and Roman pastor in the city center of Rome. The retreat runs March 9-14.<\/p>\n<p>Like Pope Francis and others, we need to sit and listen to the Word of God. Are you spending time in prayer?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who live a retreat in an authentic way,\u201d the pope recently said,\u00a0\u201cexperience the attraction and fascination of God and return renewed and transfigured in their daily lives, their ministry and their relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Francis met March 3 with an Italian federation of spiritual directors and those who run retreat houses throughout the country, offering Christians \u201cspace and time to listen intensely to the word of God in silence and in prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>May the Holy Spirit be with those making the Exercises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual lenten retreat for the Pope and the curia is not at the Apostolic Palace. This year, the Spiritual Exercises are being given at a retreat house of the Pauline Family, in Ariccia [site of the composition of the\u00a0Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World\u00a0of Vatican II], a town about 20 miles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/pope-and-the-curia-on-retreat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pope and the curia on retreat<\/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":[60],"tags":[1953],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30520"}],"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=30520"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30526,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30520\/revisions\/30526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}