from Ana Singsons comment to rapplers news on the Popes Encounter with the Families at the MOA Arena Jan 16, 2015- I was fortunate to be in MOA, and the Pope deviated many times from his prepared speech. .....He had so many beautiful Ad libs which he said in Spanish, his natural language, with much passion. His words were simple but they touched the hearts directly. Some of these gems that I treasure in my heart and which made me cry in MOA , they are not exact words but my recollection of them: 1. We must dream. As parents, do we dream of our children everday. As spouses, we should dream of the way you were when you were novios/ boyfriends and girlfriends). If we lose the capacity to dream, we lose the capacity to love and the energy to live. 2. When we dream, we dream in prayer. When we pray we do not distance ourselves from the world, but must go deeper into it. When we dream, we act on those dreams and make them real, then we go deeper into the world and become prophets of the way the world should be. 3. Have a special prayer for those without parents, without family and make a special advocacy of making them feel that they have a family. How many of you have made this a special mission? 4. Nations are built on family, so defend the family from the ideology of colonization, of external ideas that are not natural to the sacredness of family. Defend life from conception to end of life. Defend family! 5. St Joseph is quiet but strong. I ( (Pope Francis) have a statue of him on my table and when I have problems , I write my problem on a paper and place it under the statue so that St Joseph can dream of the solution to my problem while he sleeps. Because in his sleep he dreams. And because in his rest he prays. 6. We should all go back to prayer. We pray when we rest. When we dream. We pray. 6. Pray as family. when you pray together, you stay together.....
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 03:33:08 +0000
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