{"id":341952,"date":"2013-05-21T08:23:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T06:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/francis-a-culture-of-encounter\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:09:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:09:19","slug":"francis-a-culture-of-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/francis-a-culture-of-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis: a culture of encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u2018It was a moment of deep, intimate and peaceful emotion,\u2019 Maria Voce said in describing the atmosphere this morning at the mass celebrated by Pope Francis<\/a> in the chapel of Casa Santa Marta, where she had been invited with Giancarlo Faletti, the Focolare\u2019s Co-President. The words of the Pope\u2019s homily were particularly significant. They were based on the Gospel for the day (Mk 9:30-37) where it is clear that Christian progress means to become more humble and that power in the Church is service: \u2018Real power is service. As He did, He who came not to be served but to serve, and His service was the service of the Cross. He humbled Himself unto death, even death on a cross for us, to serve us, to save us. And there is no other way in the Church to move forward. For the Christian, going ahead, progress, means humbling oneself. If we do not learn this Christian rule, we will never, ever be able to understand Jesus\u2019 true message on power.<\/strong>\u2019 Greeting him the end of mass, Maria Voce told the Holy Father of the prayers and the gratitude of the whole Focolare Movement: \u2018We all committed to living what you say to the letter, in particular to go out and meet other people because in others we meet Christ.\u2019 \u2018That\u2019s just what\u2019s needed,\u2019 the Pope relied, \u2018a culture of encounter<\/a>!\u2019 <\/p>\n

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CCTV service – Pope Francis:\u00a0 True power, even in the Church, is in serving others (21.5.2013) http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HquzYPDPGq0 <\/p>\n

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Maria Voce and Giancarlo Faletti, the Focolare\u2019s President and Co-President, were at mass celebrated by Pope Francis at Casa Santa Marta today. At the conclusion of the mass, the pope emphasized the importance of a \u2018culture of encounter\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"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-341952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341952","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}