The Catholic Church is the
house and school of prayer, Pope Francis said at his weekly
general audience Wednesday, explaining that reforms without
prayer cannot constitute real change in the Church.
"Everything in the Church," the pope said, "originates in prayer
and everything grows thanks to prayer."
"Changes in the Church without prayer are not Church changes,
they are group changes.
And when the Enemy wants to fight the Church, he does so, first
of all, by trying to dry up its sources, by preventing it from
praying, and [inducing it to] make these other proposals."
When prayer ceases, he said, "the Church realizes it has become
like an empty shell, lost its bearings and no longer has its
source of warmth and love."
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