Posted on 08/19/2014 7:16:36 AM PDT by Welchie25
Pope Francis asked people to join him in prayer Aug. 19 after he learned that two of his little great nephews and their mother had died in a car crash in Argentina and his nephew was in critical condition.
The dead were identified as the wife and two young sons of Pope Francis' nephew, Emanuel Horacio Bergoglio: Valeria Carmona, 39, Antonio Bergoglio, 8 months, and Joseph Bergoglio, 2 years.
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Prayers.
That is awful! Bad enough to lose one family member, but mother and children is terrible.
Bowing my head now to pray.
Prayers Up..
God Bless..
Oh, how sad.
“As for the dead, since Scripture gives us no information on the subject, I regard it as no sin to pray with free devotion in this or some similar fashion: ‘Dear God, if this soul is in a condition accessible to mercy, be thou gracious to it.’”
(Luther’s Works, vol. 37, p. 369)
The Pope and his extended family have my prayers.
Oh dear, that is dreadful. Prays for the family.
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