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Today at Mass in St. Martha’s Guesthouse<\/a>:\u00a0Pope Francis recalled the parable recounted in the Gospel in which there is a half-dead man lying in the road. A priest walks by \u2013 a zealous priest wearing a cassock and on his way to say Mass. The priest looks at the man and says to himself \u201cI will be late for Mass\u201d and goes on his way.\u00a0\u00a0Pope Francis said, the priest was on time for Mass and the faithful were happy.<\/p>\n

Pope Francis pointed out that it can happen that Christians, Catholics, priests, Bishops and even the Pope sometimes turn away from God!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christians, Catholics, priests, Bishops and even the Pope sometimes turn away from God!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2224],"tags":[3021,2531],"class_list":["post-21865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pope-francis","tag-pope-francis","tag-st-marthas-guesthouse"],"yoast_head":"\nPope's Monday homily on the good Samaritan: "A zealous priest wearing a cassock goes on his way to say Mass..." - Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/07\/popes-monday-homily-on-the-good-samaritan-a-zealous-priest-wearing-a-cassock-gones-on-his-way-to-say-mass\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pope's Monday homily on the good Samaritan: "A zealous priest wearing a cassock goes on his way to say Mass..." - 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