{"id":17260,"date":"2021-12-29T18:04:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T23:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=17260"},"modified":"2021-12-29T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T23:05:00","slug":"the-weekly-francis-volume-392","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2021\/12\/the-weekly-francis-volume-392\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekly Francis &#8211; Volume 392"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pope-francis2-300x187.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pope-francis2-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"pope-francis2-300x187\" class=\"wp-image-14281\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Weekly Francis is a compilation of the Holy Father\u2019s writings, speeches, etc which I also cross-post at <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmyakin.com\/category\/popefrancis\">Jimmy Akin\u2019s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 19 December 2021 to 29 December 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Angelus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/angelus\/2021\/documents\/papa-francesco_angelus_20211226.html\">26 December 2021 &#8211; Angelus, Feast of the Holy Family of Nazareth<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">General Audiences<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/audiences\/2021\/documents\/papa-francesco_20211229_udienza-generale.html\">29 December 2021 &#8211; General Audience \u2019 Catechesis on Saint Joseph &#8211; 5. Saint Joseph, persecuted and courageous migrant<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Homilies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/homilies\/2021\/documents\/20211224-omelia-natale.html\">24 December 2021 &#8211; Holy Mass on the Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Letters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/letters\/2021\/documents\/20211226-lettera-sposi-anno-famiglia-amorislaetitia.html\">26 December 2021 &#8211; Letter of His Holiness Pope Francis to Married Couples for the \u2018Amoris Laetitia Family\u2019 Year, 2021\u20132022<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Messages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/messages\/pont-messages\/2021\/documents\/20211219-videomessaggio-unicatt-centenario.html\">19 December 2021 &#8211; Video message of the Holy Father for the inauguration of the academic year of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, in Milan, on the centenary of its foundation<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/messages\/urbi\/documents\/papa-francesco_20211225_urbi-et-orbi-natale.html\">25 December 2021 &#8211; \u2018Urbi et Orbi\u2019 &#8211; Christmas 2021<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speeches<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/speeches\/2021\/december\/documents\/20211223-curiaromana.html\">23 December 2021 &#8211; Christmas Greetings of the Holy Father to the Roman Curia<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/speeches\/2021\/december\/documents\/20211223-dipendentiscv.html\">23 December 2021 &#8211; To the employees of Vatican City State for the exchange of Christmas greetings<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Papal Tweets<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cThis is the lesson of #Christmas: humility is the great condition for faith, for the spiritual life and for holiness. May the Lord grant it to us as a gift.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1474009397848276992\">@Pontifex, 23 December 2021<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cLet us allow ourselves to be evangelized by the humility of #Christmas, of the manger, of the poverty and simplicity with which the Son of God entered the world. Let us allow ourselves to be evangelized by the humility of the Child Jesus.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1474024495618740225\">@Pontifex, 23 December 2021<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cDear sister or brother, if as in Bethlehem, the darkness of night overwhelms you, if the hurt you carry inside cries out \u201dYou are worthless\u201c, tonight God responds and tells you: \u201cI love you just as you are. I became little for you. Trust me and open your heart to me\u201d. #Christmas&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1474500134188859399\">@Pontifex, 24 December 2021<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cFor it to be truly #Christmas, let us not forget this: God comes to be with us and asks us to take care of our brothers and sisters, especially the poorest, the weakest, the most fragile, whom the pandemic risks marginalising even more.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1474356685690970114\">@Pontifex, 24 December 2021<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cTonight a light has been lit, a kindly light, reminding us that in our littleness, we are beloved sons and daughters, children of the light. Let us rejoice together, for no one will ever put out this light, the light of Jesus, who tonight shines brightly in our world. #Christmas\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1474492579169374211\">@Pontifex, 24 December 2021<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cThe Word became flesh in order to dialogue with us. God does not desire to carry on a monologue, but a dialogue. By the coming of Jesus, the Person of the Word made flesh, into our world, God showed us the way of encounter and dialogue. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8tEXBq5yFA\">https:\/\/vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/messages\/urbi\/documents\/papa-francesco_20211225_urbi-et-orbi-natale.html\u2026<\/a>\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1474719072633769988\">@Pontifex, 25 December 2021<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cThis is what we should ask Jesus for at #Christmas: the grace of littleness. \u201cLord, teach us to love littleness. Help us to understand that littleness is the way to authentic greatness\u201d.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1474673776495403008\">@Pontifex, 25 December 2021<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cJesus is born close to the forgotten ones on the peripheries. He comes to ennoble the excluded and He is first revealed to them: not to educated and important people, but to the shepherds, to poor working people. #Christmas\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1474688873267662849\">@Pontifex, 25 December 2021<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cAs the message of the birth of the Saviour, the source of true peace, resounds in the whole world, we continue to witness a great number of conflicts, crises and disagreements. Let us implore God to stir up in the hearts of everyone a yearning for reconciliation and fraternity.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1474721588188569600\">@Pontifex, 25 December 2021<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cChrist \u201cdwells\u201d in your marriage and he is always waiting for you to open your hearts to him, so that he can sustain you, by the power of his love. Our human love is weak; it needs the strength of Jesus\u2019 faithful love. #LetterToMarriedCouples\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1475073916750098438\">@Pontifex, 26 December 2021<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cDear married couples throughout the world! In this \u201cAmoris Laetitia Family\u201d Year, I am writing to express my deep affection and closeness to you at this very special time. #LetterToMarriedCouples <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m74zgSwk3t\">Letter<\/a>\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1475066361831436292\">@Pontifex, 26 December 2021<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cPlease, each day, let us pray a little bit together to ask God for the gift of peace. And let us all commit ourselves \u2013 parents children, Church, society \u2013 to sustain, defend and safeguard the family! #HolyFamily\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1475081460138840073\">@Pontifex, 26 December 2021<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cLet us embrace Jesus in the little ones of today, love Him in the least of our brothers and sisters, serve Him in the poor. They are most like Jesus who was born poor. It is in them that He wants to be honoured. #ChristmasSeason\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1475443847010340870\">@Pontifex, 27 December 2021<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cThe new Herods of our time devour the innocence of our children under the oppression of illegal slave labour, prostitution, exploitation, wars and forced emigration. Let us #PrayTogether today for these children and defend them. #HolyInnocents\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1475806237182861318\">@Pontifex, 28 December 2021<\/a><\/li><li>\u201cSaint Joseph, you who have experienced the suffering of those who must flee to save the lives of their loved ones, protect all those who flee because of war, hatred, hunger. Guide their steps and open the hearts of those who can help them. Let us #PrayTogether #GeneralAudience\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1476168623609810944\">@Pontifex, 29 December 2021<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Papal Instagram<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/franciscus\/\">Franciscus<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weekly Francis is a compilation of the Holy Father\u2019s writings, speeches, etc which I also cross-post at Jimmy Akin\u2019s blog. This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-weekly-francis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17261,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17260\/revisions\/17261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}