Shortly before 09:00 local time (04:00 Argentine time), the “Popemobile”, escorted by his bodyguards, toured the square. “Long live the Pope!” the crowd shouted when Francis appeared, amid a cloud of telephones and flags. Hundreds of people crowd around the barriers to greet him.
“Although we are Orthodox, it was important for us to come. God is the same for everyone,” Dan Stella, originally from Romania, told AFP.
Every Wednesday during the general audience, Pope Francis reads an excerpt from the Bible and a commentary in Italian, which is translated into a dozen languages. Since February 2020, due to the health crisis, this weekly appointment no longer took place in the famous square in Rome.
The faithful present expressed their joy at seeing the return of this “tradition”. Many keep in mind the image of Francis walking alone in the deserted square of the basilica at the end of March 2020, at the height of the pandemic.
The 85-year-old Pope blessed the faithful with a smile, but appeared to continue to suffer from pain in his knee.
Odile Lafarge, who came from France with her grandson, did not “want to miss this hearing”. “Her message from him is always one of peace and reconciliation. Our world needs it,” he opined.
“What has struck me since we arrived is the number of young people. Sometimes you don’t see many young people in our churches and seeing them so numerous and motivated shows that the next generation is there,” he said.
Source: Ambito
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