{"id":1689,"date":"2017-11-02T05:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:54:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:54:58","slug":"pope-it-pleases-god-to-fall-asleep-while-at-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1689","title":{"rendered":"Pope: God OK with falling asleep while at prayer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From my friend Damian. I don&#39;t think the Pontiff has in mind nodding off during Mass.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb09d2f02e970d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pope sleeping at prayer\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e201bb09d2f02e970d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb09d2f02e970d-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px;\" title=\"Pope sleeping at prayer\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-41829338\">Pope Francis has admitted that he sometimes nods off while praying. &quot;When I pray, sometimes I fall asleep,&quot; he said in an episode of a Catholic TV2000 television programme published on Youtube. &quot;Saint Therese used to do it too&quot;, the 80-year-old pontiff said &#8211; in reference to the 19th Century Catholic saint. But he said that falling asleep during prayer actually pleased God and that Christians were called to &quot;feel like children lying in their fathers&#39; arms&quot;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my friend Damian. I don&#39;t think the Pontiff has in mind nodding off during Mass. Pope Francis has admitted that he sometimes nods off while praying. &quot;When I pray, sometimes I fall asleep,&quot; he said in an episode of a Catholic TV2000 television programme published on Youtube. &quot;Saint Therese used to do it too&quot;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7842,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/7842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}