{"id":3977,"date":"2019-09-23T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/15.188.244.8.xip.io\/pope-francis-encourages-the-neocatechumenal-way-to-continue-proclaiming-the-gospel-throughout-the-world\/"},"modified":"2021-08-10T10:58:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T09:58:26","slug":"pope-francis-encourages-the-neocatechumenal-way-to-continue-proclaiming-the-gospel-throughout-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/en\/pope-francis-encourages-the-neocatechumenal-way-to-continue-proclaiming-the-gospel-throughout-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis encourages the Neocatechumenal Way to continue proclaiming the Gospel throughout the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The international team of the Camino Neocatechumenal is celebrating various days these days&#13;\nthat mark the beginning of the year. In the course of the years, the past Friday, September 20 in the morning, Kiko Arg\u00fcello, Mar\u00eda Ascensi\u00f3n Romero and Fr. Mario Pezzi, held a private audience with the Pope Francis in the Vatican.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Camino_Neocatecumenal_Papa_Francisco_Kiko_Arguello3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Camino_Neocatecumenal_Papa_Francisco_Kiko_Arguello3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Camino_Neocatecumenal_Papa_Francisco_Kiko_Arguello3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Camino_Neocatecumenal_Papa_Francisco_Kiko_Arguello3.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<p>The initiator of the Way, Kiko Arg\u00fcello, wanted to personally thank the Holy Father the opening in Macao (China) of the new Redemptoris Mater School for Asia, dependent on Propaganda Fide and expressly desired by the Pontiff himself.<\/p>\n\n<p>Arg\u00fcello has given His Holiness a drawing &#8211; made by himself&#13;\nKiko for this occasion &#8211; of St. Francis Xavier, patron of the&#13;\nmissions, the great apostle of Asia, who passed away at the gates of&#13;\nChina, and whose incorrupt arm is venerated precisely in Macao, the place chosen for the new Redemptoris Mater in continuation with the work of the&#13;\nevangelization that the Church has been carrying out for five&#13;\ncenturies. The Holy Father has welcomed the drawing of Saint Francis Xavier with&#13;\njoy and gratitude.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Camino_Neocatecumenal_Papa_Francisco_audiencia_equipo_responsable_camino_neocatecumenal-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Camino_Neocatecumenal_Papa_Francisco_audiencia_equipo_responsable_camino_neocatecumenal-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Camino_Neocatecumenal_Papa_Francisco_audiencia_equipo_responsable_camino_neocatecumenal-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Camino_Neocatecumenal_Papa_Francisco_audiencia_equipo_responsable_camino_neocatecumenal-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Camino_Neocatecumenal_Papa_Francisco_audiencia_equipo_responsable_camino_neocatecumenal-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Camino_Neocatecumenal_Papa_Francisco_audiencia_equipo_responsable_camino_neocatecumenal-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<p>A couple of days before, at the end of the General Audience on Wednesday, September 18,&#13;\nPope Francis wanted to personally meet and greet the formators and seminarians of this Redemptoris Mater before their heading to Macao. His Holiness encouraged them with these words: &#8220;I appreciate you a lot! A very important mission in Asia awaits you! Courage, go ahead!\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>The Pope thanked Kiko Arg\u00fcello for the evangelizing mission of the&#13;\nWay: \u201cI am happy because you carry out the most important work of&#13;\nthe Church, which is to evangelize, and you do it not with proselytizing, but&#13;\nthrough testimony \u201d.<\/p>\n\n<p>At the same time, he has underlined the importance of the presence of the&#13;\nfamilies on mission, who with their testimony attract pagans and those&#13;\naway from faith.<\/p>\n\n<p>Francis has welcomed with joy Kiko&#8217;s proposal for a new sending of families on mission, which will take place next year.<\/p>\n\n<p>At the end of the audience, which was a cordial occasion, Francis has encouraged Kiko to keep going, and to the entire Neocatechumenal Way to continue announcing the Gospel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The international team of the Camino Neocatechumenal is celebrating various days these days&#13; that mark the beginning of the year. In the course of the years, the past Friday, September 20 in the morning, Kiko Arg\u00fcello, Mar\u00eda Ascensi\u00f3n Romero and Fr. Mario Pezzi, held a private audience with the Pope Francis in the Vatican. The initiator of the Way, Kiko Arg\u00fcello, wanted to personally thank the Holy Father the opening<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn read-more-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/en\/pope-francis-encourages-the-neocatechumenal-way-to-continue-proclaiming-the-gospel-throughout-the-world\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[298,261,297,296,202],"tags":[302,225,300,301,204,299],"class_list":["post-3977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-exhortations","category-international-responsibles","category-itinerants","category-pope-francis","tag-audience","tag-kiko-arguello-en","tag-maria-ascension-romero-en","tag-mario-pezzi-en","tag-pope-francis","tag-vatican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23872,"href":"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions\/23872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}