Francisco thanked thousands of faithful and pilgrims in Saint Peter’s Square for his love after the abdominal hernia operation. He expressed “pain” for the migrant victims in the Mediterranean Sea: “The sea was calm, enough of such tragedies”
The closeness of the people “has been of great help and comfort to me.” In the first Angelus after the laparotomy and plastic surgery of the abdominal wall with a prosthesis, which he underwent on June 7 at the Gemelli hospital, the Pope Francisco expressed his gratitude “thank you from the heart”.
Leaning out of the study window of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, very moved, with strength and good energy “I wish to express my gratitude to so many who have shown me affection, concern and friendship” during hospitalization, and have assured me of their prayerful support”.
Francisco then took the opportunity to express his “pain” for the greatest tragedy that occurred with the migrants “victims of the very serious shipwreck” in the Mediterranean last Wednesday, denouncing: “The sea was calm. Enough of tragedies like this”. Asking also to pray for the young students “victims of the brutal attack on a school in western Uganda. This fight, this war everywhere: let us pray for peace”. And he asked for the victims of the Russian-Ukrainian war that we “persevere in prayer for the people of the tormented Ukraine. Let’s not forget that he suffers a lot.”
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The Pontiff introduced the Marian prayer to thousands of faithful and pilgrims who came from all over the world, who gathered under the sun, with more than 30 degrees in St. Peter’s Square listened to the words of the Gospel pronounced by Bergoglio.
Source: Ambito
