{"id":16509,"date":"2019-08-21T19:55:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T23:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=16509"},"modified":"2019-08-21T19:55:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T23:55:43","slug":"the-weekly-francis-volume-283-21-august-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2019\/08\/the-weekly-francis-volume-283-21-august-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekly Francis &#8211; Volume 283 &#8211; 21 August 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><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\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14281\" alt=\"pope-francis2-300x187\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pope-francis2-300x187.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 4 August 2019 to 21 August 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Weekly Francis is a compilation of the Holy Father\u2019s writings, speeches, etc which I also post at <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmyakin.com\/category\/popefrancis\">Jimmy Akin\u2019s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Angelus<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/angelus\/2019\/documents\/papa-francesco_angelus_20190804.html\">4 August 2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>General Audiences<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/audiences\/2019\/documents\/papa-francesco_20190807_udienza-generale.html\">7 August 2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Papal Tweets<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cIn the midst of all those passing things in which we are so caught up, help us, Father, to seek what truly lasts: your presence and that of our brother or sister.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1159426530210017280\">@Pontifex 8 August 2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cIndigenous peoples, with their variety of languages, cultures, traditions, and ancestral knowledge, remind us that we are all responsible for the care of Creation, which God has entrusted to us. #IndigenousPeoplesDay\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1159788917492781061\">@Pontifex 9 August 2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cBasically, the Christian witness announces this alone: that Jesus is alive and that He is the secret of life. #StLawrenceMartyr\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1160151306108936192\">@Pontifex 10 August 2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cToday\u2019s Gospel invites us to abandon ourselves with simplicity and trust to God\u2019s will, and to keep \u201dthe lamps alight\u201c, so we can brighten the darkness of the night. #Angelus\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1160513692422803456\">@Pontifex 11 August 2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cEducation with horizons open to transcendence helps young people to dream and to build a more beautiful world. #IYD2019\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1160876081819213824\">@Pontifex 12 August 2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cOnly when we experience God\u2019s forgiveness are we truly reborn. We start again from there, from forgiveness. It is there that we rediscover ourselves: in confessing our sins.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1161238468606828550\">@Pontifex 13 August 2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cLet us ask for the grace to remember each day that we are not forgotten by God, and that we are His beloved children, unique and irreplaceable. Calling this to mind gives us the strength not to surrender before the adversities of life.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1161600857823203328\">@Pontifex 14 August 2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cMary\u2019s journey to Heaven began with that \u201dyes\u201c pronounced at Nazareth. Every \u201cyes\u201d to God is a step towards Heaven, towards eternal life. Because the Lord wants us all with Himself, in His house!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1161963246011764736\">@Pontifex 15 August 2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cLet us ask Our Lady to protect and sustain us; that we may have a strong, joyful and merciful faith; that she may help us to be saints, to meet her one day in Paradise.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1162325632740745217\">@Pontifex 16 August 2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cWith God, the burdens of life rest not upon our shoulders alone: the Holy Spirit comes to give us strength, to encourage us, to bear our burdens.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1162688019905667072\">@Pontifex 17 August 2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cIn today\u2019s Gospel, Jesus reveals to us His most ardent desire: to bring to the earth the fire of the Father\u2019s love: the fire that saves, that changes the world, starting from the change of each one\u2019s heart. #Angelus\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1163050407570132992\">@Pontifex 18 August 2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cToday we remember all the brave women who go out to meet their brothers and sisters in difficulty. Each of them is a sign of God\u2019s closeness and compassion. #WomenHumanitarians\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1163412795985018881\">@Pontifex 19 August 2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cIn the uncertainty that we feel both inside and out, the Lord gives us a certainty: He remembers us.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1163775184257650688\">@Pontifex 20 August 2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt takes more strength to repair than to build, to start anew than to begin, to be reconciled than to get along. This is the strength that God gives us.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1164137571179515904\">@Pontifex 21 August 2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Papal Instagram<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/franciscus\/\">Franciscus<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 4 August 2019 to 21 August 2019. 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