{"id":1240,"date":"2015-09-26T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stbridgetsgreythorn.org.au\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2015-09-26T14:00:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T03:00:48","slug":"revolution-of-tenderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/revolution-of-tenderness\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolution of tenderness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>POPE Francis called Cubans to a \u201crevolution of tenderness\u201d as he celebrated Mass in the Minor Basilica of the Shrine of <em>Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre,<\/em> the country\u2019s patroness.<\/p>\n<p>While only about 60 per cent of Cubans are baptised Catholics, the little statue of Our Lady of Charity, discovered some 400 years ago, is always a<br \/>\nwidely recognised symbol of Cuban identity and of strength despite struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Dionisio Garcia Ibanex of Santiago, President of the Cuban Bishops\u2019 Conference, told the Pope at the end of Mass:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBelievers and nonbelievers consider her a clear symbol of Cuban identity because in her we see reflected the greatness, yearnings and aspirations of our people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Celebrating Mass early September 22, just a few hours before he was scheduled to fly to Washington, Francis told Cubans:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOur revolution comes about through tenderness, through the joy which always becomes closeness and compassion, and leads us to get involved in and to serve the life of others.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like Mary, who made haste to visit her pregnant cousin Elizabeth, the Catholic church wants to be with Cubans in their state of hope and<br \/>\nexpectation, \u201cto build bridges, to break down walls, to sow seeds of reconciliation,\u201d the Pope said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPE Francis called Cubans to a \u201crevolution of tenderness\u201d as he celebrated Mass in the Minor Basilica of the Shrine of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre, the country\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pastoral-messages","tag-pope"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}