{"id":326602,"date":"2014-08-13T03:06:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T01:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/pope-francis-in-south-korea\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T14:57:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T12:57:46","slug":"pope-francis-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/pope-francis-in-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cI had written a letter to Pope Francis at the start of his Pontificate <\/b>[\u2026] Then I went to WYD in Rio de Janeiro with 350 young people from Korea: there the Pope invited the young people to go out into the world to serve their brothers and sisters. So I wrote another letter, to tell him how nice it would be to have him physically among us at the meeting for Asian youth. In April when I met him in Rome the Polpe told me that as he read my letter he heard a voice in his heart saying: we have to go to Korea.\u201d These were the words of Bishop Lazzaro You Heung-sik during an interview with Vatican Insider. The bishop\u2019s diocese of Daejeon will host the Asian Youth Day as well as the meeting of Pope Francis with the bishops of Asia. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b> \u201cThe Holy Father\u2019s visit to Korea <\/a>is an extraordinary event for the Korean people<\/b> that has raised great expectation also among non-ecclesial environments outside the Catholic Church,\u201d say Alberto Kim and Maris Moon from the Focolare Movement<\/a> in Korea<\/a>. We also asked them to explain the Asian Youth Day (AYD), which is already underway (August 10-17) and whose highlight will be a meeting between the young people and the Pope. \"\"<\/a>They write: <\/b>\u201cThis week-long experience is meant to provide the young people with Catholic formation that can help them in planning their future spiritual lives. The meeting is also intended to provide opportunities to young Catholics to explore and deepen the faith so that they can share the Gospel with others including young people and other relgious groups.\u201d The day has been titled \u201cAsian youth, wake up! The glory of the Martyrs shines on you\u201d <\/b>\u00a0presenting \u201cthe spirit and example of the martyrs to the young people of the current generation, which is living amidst many temptations and non-Christian values, so that they might gain the courage to live according to Gospel values.\u201d \u00a0<\/b> The young people of the Focolare<\/a> have been entrusted with preparing \u00a0a two-hour prayer vigil for the conclusion of the second day of AYD. Alberto and Maris concluded by saying: \u201cOn August 16th we\u2019ll be at the Kkottongnae Rehabilitation Centre for the meeting of the Holy Father with Korean Lay Leaders. <\/b>Paolo Kwon from the Focolare and president of the Association of the Laity in Korea, will give the welcoming address on behalf of the Korean laity.\u201d \"20140813-b\"<\/b>The Pope\u2019s <\/b>visit<\/a> will focus attention on martyrdom, <\/b>with the beatification of Paul Yun Ji-Chung and 123 of his companion martyrs and the Youth Day\u2019s theme. \u201cA third of the Korean martyrs came from my diocese,\u201d declared Bishop Lazzaro You Heung-sik to Vatican Insider. \u201cFor them faith and life were the same thing. And they will forever remain a model for all. The young people who will come here from all Asia will redisover the gift that can make their own lives compelling and exciting as well.\u201d What are expectations? <\/b>\u201cThe Pope\u2019s visit will last four days, and then it will end. What will remain with us is Jesus, and this is what is important. For Jesus and with Jesus I can go anywhere and meet anyone. Pope Francis is only pointing to this and,in doing so he throws us all off: he helps us to never become comfortable with our conventionalities. This is a stimulus to trust in God in all that we do.\u201d <\/p>\n

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See also Rome Reports<\/a> video<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exerpts from an interview with Bishop Lazzaro You Heung-sik, bishop of Daejeon and with the local Focolare Movement in South Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}