{"id":3087,"date":"2015-03-25T15:43:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T15:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doxaweb.wordpress.com\/?p=3087"},"modified":"2015-03-25T15:43:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T15:43:03","slug":"prayer-for-the-2015-synod-on-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doxaweb.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/25\/prayer-for-the-2015-synod-on-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"prayer for the 2015 Synod on the Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/117619888\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3089\" src=\"https:\/\/doxaweb.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/worldmeetingoffamlies_carlin.jpg?w=240&#038;resize=240%2C300\" alt=\"World Meeting of Families - 2015 - Philadelphia, PA\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>During his Wednesday audience today, Pope Francis introduced a prayer for the upcoming Synod on the family.<br \/>\n&#8220;On March 25, the Solemnity of the Annunciation, the Day of Life is celebrated in many countries. For this reason, twenty years ago, Saint John Paul II on this date signed the Encyclical <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/john-paul-ii\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_jp-ii_enc_25031995_evangelium-vitae.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Evangelium vitae<\/a><\/strong>. To celebrate this anniversary, many members of the Movement for Life are in the Square today. In Evangelium vitae the family occupies a central place, insofar as it is the womb of human life. The words of my venerable Predecessor remind us that the human couple was blessed by God from the beginning to form a community of love and life, to which He entrusted the mission of procreation. Christian spouses, celebrating the Sacrament of Matrimony, open themselves to honor this benediction, with the grace of God, for all of life. The Church, for her part, is solemnly committed to the care of the family that results from it, as a gift of God for her own life, in good fortune and in bad: the bond between the Church and the family is sacred and inviolable. The Church, as a mother, never abandons the family, even when it is disheartened, wounded, and mortified in so many ways; it will always do everything to seek to cure and heal it, to invite it to conversion and to reconcile it with the Lord.<br \/>\nSo then, if this is the task, it appears clear how much prayer the Church needs in order to be up to fulfilling this mission at all times! A prayer full of love for the family and for life. A prayer that knows how to rejoice with those who rejoice, and to suffer with those who suffer.<br \/>\nSo here is what I, with my collaborators, have thought to propose today: to renew the prayer for the Synod of the Bishops on the family. We are taking up this commitment again next October, when the ordinary Assembly of the Synod, dedicated to the family, will take place. I would like for this prayer, and the whole Synod journey, to be animated by the compassion of the Good Shepherd for His flock, especially for persons and families that, for different reasons, are \u201ctroubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd\u201d (Mt 9:36). So, sustained and animated by the grace of God, the Church can be ever more committed, and ever more united, in the witness of the truth of the love of God and of His mercy for the families of the world, excluding none, whether within or outside the flock. I ask you, please, to not neglect your prayer. All of us \u2013 the Pope, Cardinals, Bishops, priests, religious, lay faithful \u2013 we are all called to pray for the Synod. There is need of this, not of chatter! I also invite those who feel far away, or who are not accustomed to do so, to pray. This prayer for the Synod on the Family is for the good of everyone&#8230;.. I invite you to hold on to it and keep it with you, so that in the coming months you can recite it often, with holy insistence, as Jesus has asked us. Now, let us say it together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jesus, Mary and Joseph,<br \/>\nIn you we contemplate<br \/>\nThe splendor of true love,<br \/>\nWe turn to you with confidence.<br \/>\nHoly Family of Nazareth,<br \/>\nMake our families, also,<br \/>\nPlaces of communion and cenacles of prayer,<br \/>\nAuthentic schools of the Gospel,<br \/>\nAnd little domestic Churches.<br \/>\nHoly Family of Nazareth<br \/>\nMay our families never more experience<br \/>\nViolence, isolation, and division:<br \/>\nMay anyone who was wounded or scandalized<br \/>\nRapidly experience consolation and healing.<br \/>\nHoly Family of Nazareth,<br \/>\nMay the upcoming Synod of Bishops<br \/>\nRe-awaken in all an awareness<br \/>\nOf the sacred character and inviolability of the family,<br \/>\nIts beauty in the project of God.<br \/>\nJesus, Mary and Joseph,<br \/>\nHear and answer our prayer. Amen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.radiovaticana.va\/news\/2015\/03\/25\/pope_calls_for_renewed_prayers_for_synod_on_the_family\/1131971\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vatica<strong>n Radio<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his Wednesday audience today, Pope Francis introduced a prayer for the upcoming Synod on the family. &#8220;On March 25, the Solemnity of the Annunciation, the Day of Life is celebrated in many countries. For this reason, twenty years ago, Saint John Paul II on this date signed the Encyclical Evangelium vitae. 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