A woman with a smartphone cover featuring Pope Francis takes pictures as people await his on the airfield at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland Sept. 22, 2015.
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Pope鱿鱼视频app app 'Click to Pray' connects Catholics to mobile prayer network
By Catholic News Agency
VATICAN 鈥 Pope Francis launched an app Sunday called 鈥淐lick to Pray,鈥 which connects Catholics to a global network to share prayer intentions via their smartphones.
The Pope opened the new app using an iPad during his Angelus address Jan. 20 and encouraged young Catholics, in particular, to download the smartphone app to pray the 鈥淩osary of Peace鈥 ahead of .
allows users to post prayer intentions and view other prayer requests in six languages. After posting on the social network, one can track how many Catholics around the world have prayed for their request.
The Android and iOS app includes the Pope鱿鱼视频app monthly prayer intentions, all of the mysteries of the rosary, and daily prayers for morning, afternoon, and night. In each of these sections, users can click a box to indicate that they have completed the prayer and view how many others also prayed.
This month鱿鱼视频app prayer intention is 鈥渇or young people and the example of Mary.鈥 In his Angelus address, Pope Francis reflected on Mary鱿鱼视频app role in Sunday鱿鱼视频app Gospel narrative of the wedding feast at Cana.
鈥淟et us look at Mary: the words that Mary addresses to the servants come to crown the spousal framework of Cana, 鈥楧o whatever he tells you,鈥欌 Francis said. 鈥淭hese words are a precious inheritance that our Mother has left us.鈥
鈥淭o serve the Lord means to listen and practice His word. It is the simple, essential recommendation of the Mother of Jesus, it is the program of life of the Christian,鈥 he continued.
Pope Francis explained that 鈥渋t is not accidental that at the beginning of Jesus' public life there is a wedding ceremony, because in Him God has married humanity.鈥
Jesus鈥 transformation of water into wine was also symbolic, Francis noted, 鈥淲ater is necessary to live, but the wine expresses the abundance of the banquet and the joy of the party.鈥
He joked, 鈥淚t would have been bad to continue the party with water! ... A party without wine? I don鈥檛 know.鈥
The Pope encouraged Catholics to turn to Our Lady when facing difficult situations, and to echo her words, 鈥淭hey have no wine.鈥
Francis explained, 鈥淲hen problems occur that we do not know how to solve, when we often feel anxiety and anguish, when we lack the joy, go to Our Lady and say, 鈥榃e have no wine. The wine is finished: look how I am, look at my heart, look at my soul.鈥 Tell Mother, and she will go to Jesus to say, 鈥楲ook at this, look at this: they have no wine.鈥 And then, she will come back to us and tell us, 鈥楧o whatever he tells you.鈥欌
In a prayer to Mary after the Angelus, the Pope expressed his grief and continued prayers for the Colombian people after the terrorist attack last Thursday at the National Police Academy, which killed 21 people.
The Pope said that it 鈥減ained his heart鈥 that an estimated 170 migrants are missing after two shipwrecks in the Mediterranean this weekend.
鈥淭hey were looking for a future for their lives. Victims, perhaps, of human traffickers. We pray for them, and for those who are responsible for what happened,鈥 he said.
The cheers at the end of the Angelus prayer were louder than usual as young people in St. Peter鱿鱼视频app square waved Panamanian flags and raised a large banner reading, 鈥淏uon Viaggio.鈥 The Pope will depart Rome for Panama on January 23 for World Youth Day 2019.
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