General Audience: We begin now a series of catecheses on three facets of family life: celebration, work and prayer.
POPE FRANCIS – GENERAL AUDIENCE – Paul VI Audience Hall – Wednesday, 12 August 2015. We begin now a series of catecheses on three facets of family life: celebration, work and prayer. Let us turn first to celebrations which, as we see from the Story of Creation, are the invention of God, who on the seventh day rested from his work. It is God himself who teaches us the importance of dedicating time to contemplating and enjoying the fruits of our labours, not only in our employment or profession, but through every action by which we as men and women cooperate in God’s creative work, even in times of difficulty. In the workplace too, we celebrate – a birthday, a…Continue Reading