{"id":3735,"date":"2025-03-14T09:02:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T09:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=3735"},"modified":"2025-03-14T09:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T09:02:22","slug":"pope-francis-pray-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=3735","title":{"rendered":"Catholics Around the Globe Heed Francis\u2019 Call to \u2018Pray for Me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When Pope Francis first <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sca_esv=0f325a308ee29447&amp;pws=0&amp;gl=us&amp;sxsrf=AHTn8zomxmJdvhULdR9qj_jt2ZeUtKFkHg:1741770451687&amp;q=pope+francis+balcony&amp;udm=7&amp;fbs=ABzOT_DcPYJ5R2ppcS2ZYw5E-SzwUKpW51k6OAVP9ykEkkCekmIV1L4LjXK_3bYenHQ7ucW85EfNhnxxTEQKxekNFJKRpTAB0CuSeJ3yejwURcZcUGO9FGi9mEQNQ1h_ZDhyoFvjVpPg81GAKSNOle2f45vzRUIsXJOAr44mU4Z-pO5cFkly9X3Pvv-IU--d50i0vOut8FBixlYaUVq8NK-_Ar-JR-oEvA&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwj0g7bImISMAxVPnf0HHaaSFRsQtKgLegQIDhAB&amp;biw=1448&amp;bih=601&amp;dpr=2#fpstate=ive&amp;vld=cid:3419c506,vid:8szDFB30azA,st:0\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">appeared<\/a> to the world on the balcony of St. Peter\u2019s Basilica, he humbly requested that the faithful \u201cpray for me.\u201d Those simple words became the punctuation marks of his pontificate, as he ended practically all his speeches, greetings, weekly benedictions and casual conversations with the appeal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, 12 years since his election on March 13, 2013, and a month to the day that he entered the hospital with life-threatening lung infections, the Roman Catholic world is heeding his call and praying for its pope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even as the Vatican says that the pope\u2019s condition has seen a \u201cslight improvement,\u201d every evening, Vatican cardinals lead rosary prayers for Francis\u2019 recovery. Parishes around the world, from his native Argentina to the far-flung nations he made it a priority to visit and worship with, are holding prayer sessions. Even Francis\u2019 opponents in the church\u2019s hierarchy, prelates he demoted and fired and who have waged war against the pope\u2019s vision \u2014 often over how to pray and worship \u2014 are silently saying their prayers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAt this moment, even people from different ideological or theological inclinations, prayer is bringing them together,\u201d said Archbishop Fortunatus Nwachukwu, the secretary of the Vatican\u2019s office for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.catholic-hierarchy.org\/diocese\/dxeva.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">evangelization<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He said Francis\u2019 constant appeal over the past dozen years for people to pray for him was an expression of his humility, that \u201clike any other person, he needs prayer\u201d and God\u2019s help. It was also an expression of Francis\u2019s trust that people, often from other faiths, had the same line of communication to God as he did.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt is not a question of selfishness,\u201d the archbishop said. \u201cIt is a question of human solidarity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Prayer has been the lifeblood of faith, the currency between the earthly and spiritual realms, since time immemorial. For Francis, the church\u2019s first Jesuit pope, it has played a major role in a pastoral vision that draws people close to the church by emphasizing blessings and simple acts of devotion over church rules and traditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He has often taught that an openness to God\u2019s will, a form of prayer, is central to his decision-making and has preached that a church that prays together stays together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, with his breathing belabored and his body still weak, it is the pope\u2019s own ailing health that has become an additional motivation for the prayer he believes the church needs to thrive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI thank you from the bottom of my heart for your prayers for my health from the square,\u201d Francis said in a feeble voice last week, in his only public address since his Feb. 14 hospitalization. \u201cI accompany you from here.\u201d In recent days, he has observed and taken part by video link in spiritual exercises at the Vatican, where his tenuous condition looms over all conversations and rituals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, the archpriest of St. Peter\u2019s Basilica, walked into the Vatican on Tuesday evening for one of those meditations and prayer services for Francis, he said that prayer was \u201cthe breath of the soul\u201d and that he and other church leaders, in praying for the pope, prayed \u201cfor the breath we all need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Cardinal Francis Arinze, a former leader of the church\u2019s worship office under Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, said prayer was paramount. In the Bible, he said, followers who prayed to Jesus \u201cgot what they were asking.\u201d It showed, he said, that \u201cwe need God; we are not almighty. It\u2019s normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Rank-and-file Catholics agreed. In the San Zaccaria church in Venice, an old woman held a rosary that she said Francis had given her. She said that she included him in her prayers. Her 90-year-old priest, the Rev. Carlo Seno, said that he prayed for Francis every day, but that if the pope did not end up recovering, it would not mean that prayer had failed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cGod can intervene in a way that is different from what we hope,\u201d Father Seno said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Carol Zaleski, an author, with her husband, Philip Zaleski, of \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Prayer-History-Carol-Zaleski\/dp\/0618773606\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Prayer: A History,<\/a>\u201d said there were many different types and styles of prayer \u2014 petitions and adorations, unspoken and sung, linked to sacrifice or ritual. What was clear was that prayer had accompanied humanity since the beginning and that signs of it went back, at least, to cave drawings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For the Catholic Church, she said, prayer, like doctrine, had evolved over the centuries. \u201cLex orandi, lex credendi,\u201d she said, recalling an early Christian formulation that meant prayer and belief were one and the same.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In subsequent centuries, hermit monks in Egypt prayed fervently to survive hunger and the elements. The monasteries of the Middle Ages became what she called the \u201cprayer laboratories\u201d where \u201cthey\u2019re doing every kind of prayer.\u201d In the 12th century, St. Dominic of Guzm\u00e1n, the founder of the Dominican order, reported that the Virgin Mary gave him rosary beads to keep count of Hail Mary recitations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Prayer took different forms, but the petitions for help or miracles really went into overdrive, she said, \u201cwhen the enemy is approaching and about to sack your city, or when the plague is killing everybody.\u201d When disaster was averted, prayer got the credit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After Pope Pius V led a league of Christian fighters in praying the rosary before triumphing over a larger Turkish invasion in the 1571 Battle of Lepanto, a turning point in the history of Europe, the church thanked the Virgin Mary by creating a feast day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The church still turned to prayer in the face of the world\u2019s greatest challenges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2020, as deaths from Covid surged, Francis stood alone between a wooden cross used to ward off a 16th-century plague and the empty square of St. Peter\u2019s Basilica to offer haunting prayers for the world\u2019s healing. Remembering that occasion, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi told Italian bishops this week that it was now the world\u2019s turn to be \u201cunited in prayer for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The call came through to Vincenza De Simone, 69, from Naples, Italy, as she stood in St. Peter\u2019s Square in Rome, reciting the Hail Mary prayer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is an historic moment,\u201d she said, adding that the pope\u2019s sickness was an extra motivation for Catholics across the globe to pray for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Archbishop Nwachukwu said that togetherness was something Jesus, who expressly made prayer a pillar of the faith, wanted when he told his followers that God was present wherever two or three people gathered to pray.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Tuesday evening, cardinals spilled out of the Vatican after a day of spiritual exercises and prayers for Francis that a friar leading meditations said should be hard work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAfter two hours,\u201d said Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, prefect of the church office for Eastern Churches, \u201cwe are exhausted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Among the prelates who have taken part in the prayer services for Francis in recent weeks have been some of his most prominent critics, traditionalists Francis clashed with for their championing of old rites and ways of praying that he worried put too much distance between the faithful and the church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On the first night of the rosary prayer on the steps of St. Peter\u2019s Basilica, Cardinal Raymond Burke of the United States, who has in the past suggested the pope was in danger of becoming a heretic, prayed quietly in the front row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Tuesday night, another prelate Francis exiled from power, Cardinal Robert Sarah of Guinea, a former head of the church\u2019s office on worship, left the evening prayers for Francis. He worked his rosary beads as he crossed St. Peter\u2019s Square.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m praying right now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Emma Bubola<!-- --> contributed reporting from Venice, and <!-- -->Elisabetta Povoledo<!-- --> from Rome.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Pope Francis first appeared to the world on the balcony of St. Peter\u2019s Basilica, he humbly requested that the faithful \u201cpray for me.\u201d Those simple words became the punctuation&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":3736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - 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