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Pope Runs Late, Asks to Skip Prayers _ or Else! 教宗快趕不及，要求略過禱告–否則麻煩大了！

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Pope Francis has long been a stickler for setting aside enough time to pray, getting up at 4：30 a.m. to ensure he isn’t rushed through his daily meditations.

天主教教宗方濟各長久以來一直堅持留出足夠時間祈禱，他凌晨4點30分起床，確保不匆促進行每日的靈修。

But he sheepishly asked to skip evening vespers on Saturday after he ran behind schedule during a busy day that saw him celebrate a Mass before about 800,000 people in Seoul and then travel 90 kilometers to a South Korean community that cares for disabled people.

不過，週六他羞赧地要求略過晚禱，因為他在馬不停蹄的一天當中行程落後，這一天他在首爾約80萬名群眾前主持一場彌撒，然後奔馳90公里，到一個照顧殘障人士的南韓社區。

Francis had three meetings scheduled consecutively in the community of Kkottognae, and by the time he hit the second one – a vespers service in Latin and Korean and speech to some 5,000 nuns – he was running out of time.

方濟各原本在「花村」社區連續有3個聚會行程，但到第2個聚會時—一場以拉丁文與韓文進行的晚禱，並對約5000名修女發表演說—他沒時間了。