{"id":6190,"date":"2019-09-16T16:26:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T20:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/papal-blessing-icon-syria\/"},"modified":"2019-09-16T16:26:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T20:26:33","slug":"papal-blessing-icon-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/papal-blessing-icon-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"A papal blessing of an icon for Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acn-canada.org\/papal_blessing_icon_2019\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cIt is a great joy for me to have participated in this event which took place just before the Sunday Angelus,\u201d said a joyful Marie-Claude Lalonde on the other end of the line. \u201cThis blessing is a pure joy as we are at the very heart of ACN\u2019s mission: providing pastoral support to Christians who are in need.\u201d And she adds: \u201cThis initiative touches on every one of the calls for peace that Pope Francis has launched to put a stop to the abominable conflict that has caused so much suffering for Syrian civilians. With this gesture he has reaffirmed with strength his support of the Syria population broken by war.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<h4>Pilgrimage of the icon: For the healing of hearts<\/h4>\n\n<p><br \/>\nThis icon of Our Lady of Sorrows was written last August by Father Spiridon Kabbash of Homs and will be presented for the veneration of the faithful in 34 dioceses of Syria, likely until May 31, 2020.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u201cThe blessing of an icon can seem inconsequential to secularized societies like our own,\u201d explains Mrs. Lalonde. \u201cBut in Syria, religious traditions are still present in public and social society and these gestures\u2014such as to write an icon, bless it and offer it for veneration by the faithful for a period of nine months is a veritable balm, immense and almost essential for all Christians who are wounded by this filthy war, they who have survived through over eight years of fratricidal conflict.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cFinally, I greeted the Pope in the name of all Canadian benefactors of Aid to the Church in Need Canada,\u201d says Mrs. Lalonde in closing.<br \/>\nThe Pope\u2019s message to the families who will accompany the icon is: \u201cYou are not alone; we are with you.\u201d &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMeanwhile in Syria, the 6,000 rosaries blessed by Pope Francis one month ago were distributed throughout Syrian parishes as part of a larger prayer campaign for and with the Syrian people called Console my People, an initiative promoted by Aid to the Church in Need and the Syrian Churches.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>For more information: <a href=\"https:\/\/acn-canada.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aid to the Church in Need<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source \u201cIt is a great joy for me to have participated in this event which took place just before the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}