{"id":738052,"date":"2022-01-06T19:06:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T19:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/pope-francis-urges-christians-to-look-to-heaven-during-epiphany\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:06:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T19:06:10","slug":"pope-francis-urges-christians-to-look-to-heaven-during-epiphany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/pope-francis-urges-christians-to-look-to-heaven-during-epiphany\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis urges Christians to look to heaven during Epiphany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Pope-Francis-urges-Christians-to-look-to-heaven-during-Epiphany.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 6 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Pope Francis urged Christians to life their eyes &#8220;up to heaven&#8221; in celebration of the Epiphany &#8212; a day that commemorates the baptism of Jesus Christ &#8212; on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>During a homily, Pope Francis urged Christians to embrace the spirit of the three wise men to visit Jesus in Bethlehem.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The Church needs this deep desire and zeal that should animate our journey of life and faith,&#8221; the Pope said, according to a Vatican press release.<\/p>\n<p>He noted how the Magi asked questions, demonstrated courage by challenging King Herod, and were open to returning home another way with the creativity of spirit.<\/p>\n<p>In Tarpon Springs, the Greek Orthodox community hosted the largest Epiphany celebration in the western hemisphere at the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 70 teenage boys jumped from boats to retrieve a white cross in Spring Bayou with more than 20,000 spectators watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 6 (UPI) &#8212; Pope Francis urged Christians to life their eyes &#8220;up to heaven&#8221; in celebration of the Epiphany &#8212; a day that commemorates the baptism of Jesus Christ &#8212; on Thursday. During a homily, Pope Francis urged Christians to embrace the spirit of the three wise men to visit Jesus in Bethlehem. Advertisement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":738053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}