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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis continued his series of catechetical reflections on “Christian Hope” during his weekly General Audience on Wednesday. The Holy Father based his reflection on the prophecy of Jeremiah: Rachel “weeping for her children,” but… “There is hope for your future” (Jeremiah 31:15-17).Below, please find the full text of the official English-language summary of Pope Francis’ catechesis for 4 January 2017:Dear Brothers and Sisters:  In our continuing catechesis on Christian hope, we now turn to the figure of Rachel, the wife of Jacob, who died giving birth to her second child.  The prophet Jeremiah evokes Rachel’s tears – the tears of a mother who weeps for her children and would not be consoled – to describe the sorrow of the Chosen People at the time of the Exile.  Anyone familiar with the grief of a mother who has lost a child knows the power of this image.  In response to Ra...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Wednesday expressed his “sorrow and concern” upon hearing news of the prison riots that took place Monday in Brazil. More than 50 people were killed, making the riots the deadliest to hit Brazil in two decades.During his General Audience on Wednesday, the Holy Father called for prayer “for those who have died, for their families, for all the inmates of that prison, and for those who work there.” The Pope also renewed his appeal “that prisons might be places of re-education and re-integration into society; and that the conditions of life of prisoners might be worthy of human persons.”Brazil's justice minister on Tuesday proposed an overhaul of the penal system to tackle chronic prison overcrowding  The minister, Alexandre de Moraes, said his country needed to improve conditions in jails, which are home to an estimated 600,000 inmates, after visiting the prison in the jungle city of Manaus.
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Wednesday continued his series of reflections on Christian hope, speaking of the inconsolable pain of a parent losing a child. The Pope focused his words on the Old Testament figure of Rachel, wife of Jacob, who is described by the prophet Jeremiah as weeping bitter tears for her children in exile.Philippa Hitchen reports:  In the book of Genesis, we learn that Rachel died in childbirth, giving life to her second son, Benjamin. But the prophet Jeremiah talks about her inconsolable grief at the loss of her children who’ve been sent into exile.There are no words or gestures, the Pope said, that can console a mother faced with the tragedy of losing a child.  There are many mothers today, he went on, who are crying and inconsolable, unable to accept the senseless death of a child. Rachel’s pain, he said, encapsulates the suffering of all mothers and the tears of all people who weep for an irreparable loss.This story, the Pope said,...
The newly-appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Chimoio in Mozambique, João Carlos Hatoa Nunes has told Radio Vatican’s Maputo-based correspondent, Hermínio José, that assurances for peace in the country as declared by both the FRELIMO Government and opposition RENAMO are encouraging. The former Auxiliary Bishop of Maputo urged the two political parties to seize the moment and make the most of it by ensuring that attaining peace becomes a priority in the nation. Bishop João Carlos said both FRELIMO and RENAMO need to listen to the cry of the people who thirst for peace. The Bishop emphasised that all actors in the stalled peace process need to do everything they can for the sake of lasting peace. Shortly after Christmas, Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi was quoted by Radio Mozambique as saying that there is every reason to hope that effective peace could be reached in 2017.Nyusi revealed that the RENAMO opposition leader, Afonso Dhlakama h...
Santiago, Chile, Jan 4, 2017 / 03:12 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Dawn breaks in the city of Santiago de Chile. Amid the hustle and bustle of the waking city, a narrow wooden door welcomes in the “dear brothers of the street,” as they are affectionately called.They come in an orderly line and receive their first meal of the day, at a little known building that marks the first stop on the “spoon trail.”While most people pass by, hurrying on their way without a second glance, those who live on the streets of Santiago know where to stop for the meals they need to survive throughout the day.The first is the San Antonio de Padua soup kitchen, a small facility located at San Francisco Church in the Alameda area of Santiago. Each weekday, it welcomes about 50 men and women, offering free milk, tea and bread to everyone who asks.Enrique Carrasco has been a volunteer at the kitchen for three years, and is one of the few that is able to work every weekday.He and the four other...
Vatican City, Jan 4, 2017 / 04:14 am (CNA/EWTN News).- After launching the first video series on his monthly prayer intentions last year, Pope Francis has decided to make some changes for 2017 by going back to an older system focusing on just one intention rather than two.However, true to form, he has also added a novelty: in addition to the one monthly intention, Francis will also issue an “urgent” prayer intention himself each month in order to garner rapid support for the cause.According to a recent blog post by Fr. James Kubicki, national director of the U.S. branch of the Apostleship of Prayer, the Pope decided to launch an urgent intention “given the speed of communication in the digital age.”While the 12 monthly prayer intentions for 2017 have already been published on the Apostleship of Prayer’s website, Francis will announce his urgent intention during his first Sunday Angelus address of each month.The Pope’s intention for January is simi...
Vatican City, Jan 4, 2017 / 04:59 am (CNA/EWTN News).- While no words or gestures will ever be enough to comfort the pain experienced by those who have lost a child, Pope Francis said that God’s response to our tears is the offer of hope – hope in the promise of eternal life.Reflecting on the Old Testament figure of Rachel, who in the Book of Jeremiah is weeping “for her children – they are no more!” the Pope focused his Jan. 4 general audience on God’s response to her mourning.“God, with his gentleness and his love, responds to the cry of Rachel with real words” through the Prophet Jeremiah, he said.“Cease your cries of weeping, hold back your tears! There is compensation for your labor,” Jeremiah writes. “They shall return from the enemy’s land. There is hope for your future…your children shall return to their own land.”The pain of Rachel in the loss of her children “embodies the pain of all...
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