{"id":3743,"date":"2010-05-23T15:20:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T23:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=3743"},"modified":"2010-07-25T18:03:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T02:03:33","slug":"pope-benedict-on-mary-pentecost-and-china-prayer-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/religious-news\/pope-benedict-on-mary-pentecost-and-china-prayer-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Benedict on Mary, Pentecost, and China Prayer Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pope-benedict-xvi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"305\" \/><br \/>\nPope Benedict XVI<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/cogwriter.htm\">COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, Pope Benedict XVI spoke on Pentecost, Mary, and China:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Vatican:   Pope: There is no Pentecost without the Virgin Mary.  Prayer for China<\/h2>\n<p><span>Vatican City<\/span><span> &#8211; &#8220;There is no Pentecost without the  Virgin Mary&#8230;&#8221; So said Benedict XVI in his reflection before reciting the  Regina Caeli with pilgrims in St Peter&#8217;s Square. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After the Marian prayer, the pontiff also called on all  Christians in China and the world to celebrate the World Day of Prayer  for the Church in China, which he established on May 24 with the Letter  to Chinese Catholics in 2007. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Help of Christians &#8211;  said the pope &#8211; offers us &#8211; tomorrow May 24th &#8211; the chance to celebrate  the Day of Prayer for the Church in China. While the faithful in China  are praying that the unity among themselves and with the universal  Church will grow ever deeper, Catholics in the world &#8211; especially those  who are of Chinese origin &#8211; will join them in prayer and charity, that  the Holy Spirit pours into our hearts, especially in today&#8217;s solemnity. <\/span><span>&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Earlier, Benedict XVI stressed the link between Mary and the  Holy Spirit and recalled his recent visit to Fatima&#8230;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.speroforum.com\/site\/article.asp?id=33451&amp;t=Vatican%3A+++Pope%3A+There+is+no+Pentecost+without+the+Virgin+Mary.+Prayer+for+China\">http:\/\/www.speroforum.com\/site\/article.asp?id=33451&amp;t=Vatican%3A+++Pope%3A+There+is+no+Pentecost+without+the+Virgin+Mary.+Prayer+for+China<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The pontiff has increased his emphasis on Mary lately (see <a title=\"Pope Benedict in Fatima, Portugal\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"\/news\/religious-news\/pope-benedict-in-fatima-portugal\/\">Pope Benedict  in Fatima, Portugal<\/a> and <a title=\"Permanent Link to Pope Speaks on Fatima Feast  Day\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"\/news\/religious-news\/pope-speaks-on-fatima-feast-day\/\">Pope Speaks on Fatima Feast Day<\/a>)&#8211;but the Bible does not suggest that she was a prominent part of Pentecost in Acts 2 (though she was apparently there; cf. Acts 1:14).<\/p>\n<p>We in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/ylcg.htm\">Living Church of God<\/a> have long prayed for China to be reached, but not in conjunction in with Fatima or specifically May24th.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information on related topics,   please check out the following:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/pentecost.htm\">Pentecost: Is it more  than Acts 2?<\/a> Many &#8220;Christians&#8221; somewhat observe Pentecost. Do they  know what it means?  It is also called  the Feast of Harvest, the Feast  of Weeks, and the day of firstfruits. What about &#8220;speaking in tongues&#8221;?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/Mary-Mother-of-Jesus.htm\">Mary, the    Mother of Jesus and the Apparitions<\/a> Do you know much about Mary?   Are  the apparitions real? What happened at Fatima? What might they  mean  for  the rise of the ecumenical religion of Antichrist? Are  Protestants   moving towards Mary? How do the Orthodox view Mary? How  might Mary  view  her adorers?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/china.htm\">China, Its Biblical Past  and Future, Part 1: Genesis and Chinese Characters<\/a> This article  provides information showing that the Chinese peoples must have known  about various accounts in the Book of Genesis up until their dispersion  after the Tower of Babel.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/china2.htm\">China, Its Biblical Past  and Future, Part 2: The Sabbath and Some of God&#8217;s Witness in China<\/a> When did Christianity first come to China? And is there early evidence  that they observed the seventh day sabbath?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/china3.htm\"> Asia in Prophecy<\/a> What is Ahead for Asia? Who are the &#8220;Kings of the East&#8221;? What will  happen to nearly all the Chinese, Russians, Indians, and others of Asia?  China in prophecy, where? Who has the 200,000,000 man army related to  Armageddon?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/catholic.htm\">Which Is Faithful: The  Roman Catholic Church or the Living Church of God?<\/a> Do you know that  both groups shared a lot of the earliest teachings? Do you know which  church changed? Do you know which group is most faithful to the  teachings of the apostolic church? Which group best represents true  Christianity? This documented article answers those questions. <a href=\"\/catolica-pt.html\">Portugu\u00eas: Qual \u00e9 fiel:  A igreja cat\u00f3lica romana ou a igreja viva do deus?<\/a> Tambien <a href=\"\/catolica-es.htm\">Espa\u00f1ol: Cu\u00e1l es fiel:  \u00bfLa iglesia cat\u00f3lica romana o La Iglesia del Dios Viviente?<\/a> Auch: <a href=\"\/katholische.htm\">Deutsch: Welches  zuverl\u00e4ssig ist: Die R\u00f6misch-katholische Kirche oder die lebende Kirche  von Gott?<\/a><a href=\"\/catholicprophecyantichrist.htm\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI COGwriter Today, Pope Benedict XVI spoke on Pentecost, Mary, and China: Vatican: Pope: There is no Pentecost without the Virgin Mary. Prayer for China Vatican City &#8211; &#8220;There is no Pentecost without the Virgin Mary&#8230;&#8221; So said Benedict XVI in his reflection before reciting the Regina Caeli with pilgrims in St Peter&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4176,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions\/4176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}