After spending his second quiet night the Pope Francisco in the apartment on the tenth floor of the “Gemelli” University Hospital, where he has been hospitalized since Wednesday afternoon due to a “infectious bronchitis” He is already preparing for medical discharge tomorrow Saturday and could preside over the Holy Week rites.
Bergoglio is undergoing “infusion-based antibiotic therapy,” announced the medical staff who are assisting him.
According to Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, the pontiff is expected to leave the hospital on Saturday.
Holy Week Rites
As confirmed by Cardinal Re, the Pope will preside over the Holy Week rites while he transfers the celebration of the masses to other cardinals he trusts.
For the moment, the Palm Sunday mass will be celebrated by the vice dean of the College of Cardinals, the Argentine Cardinal, Leonardo Sandri, 79 years old.
That of Holy Thursday, the “Crisma” in the morning by the Cardinal Vicar of Rome Angelo De Donatis and the liturgical celebration in the afternoon “in Coena Domini” and Bergoglio chose the Franciscan priest, the Italian Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, 58 years old.
The Easter celebration, the most important rite, that of Easter Sunday, by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re.
Responds well to therapy
Late in the morning there should be a new medical report with the official update on the status of the Pope hospitalized for “infectious bronchitis”, who is responding well to infusion-based antibiotic therapy with “clear improvement” they say from the office press of the Holy See.
Source: Ambito
