Pope Francis continues in the period of convalescence of your respiratory disease andat the beginning of the rites by Easter week, From the Vatican They seek to protect their health. However, the Argentine seeks to maintain his active participation during one of the most important celebrations of the Catholic calendar. In this way, the Supreme Pontiff was not present at the Crismal Mass, held in the Basilica of San Pedro, although I send a message to be reproduced during the event.
Despite being physically absent, Francisco said present through different messages. In the initial mass – officiated by Cardinal Domenico Calcagno – the homily read was written by the Argentine: “The field is the world. Our common house, so wounded, and human fraternity, so denied but indelible, call us to take a position, ”he said part of the message.
“The harvest of God is for all: A living field, where it grows a hundred times more than what was sown. That encourages us, in the mission, the joy of the kingdom, which rewards all effort, ”he added.
Another of the numerous messages of the Pope was: “The jubilee year thus represents, for us the priests, a specific callOA recommend under the sign of conversion. Pilgrims of hope, to get out of clericalism and become announcers of hope. ”
Despite his delicate health, Pope Francis seeks to say present in a traditional ritual
If something characterizes the Argentine, throughout his career, it was the closeness with the faithful and his tenacity to preach Catholicism. At 88, the maximum representative of the Church maintains its principles and, despite being in a delicate period of its health, He presses to say present in one of the most symbolic acts and that most marked his pontificate: the visit to a jail for Mass in Coena Domini.
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During the same – that will take place this afternoon – the Church commemorates Jesus’ last dinner and his gesture of washing his disciples. His presence in the rite was not yet confirmed by the Vatican, who prefers to be handled cautiously about the Argentine participation in the Easter events.
As it transpired, the meeting would be private around 12 – Argentine time – and the greeting to the inmates should be brief. Francisco was already in 2018 in the prison near the Vatican, in the Tistevere neighborhood, and washed his feet to 12 inmates, three of them women.
Since his mandate began in the Catholic Church, Bergoglio chose different refugee and prisons centers for the traditional foot washing. A ritual that for the Pope has a particular symbolic weight and for which he means present, Although less than a month ago he returned home in the hospital.
Source: Ambito
