The Supreme Pontiff has a cold and will not participate in Sunday’s celebration in St. Peter’s Square. The Vatican specified that this decision was also taken in view “of the commitments planned for next week.”
Pope Francis, with a cold, will celebrate the Sunday Angelus prayer online and not from the window of the apostolic palace in St. Peter’s Square, in the Vatican, the pontiff’s press room reported on Saturday.
“Due to the intense cold, along with the cold symptoms that have manifested in recent days, Pope Francis will celebrate the Angelus prayer on Sunday, December 22, from the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta,” his residence in the Vatican, indicated a message in Italian published on Telegram.
The Vatican specified that this decision was also taken in view “of the commitments planned for next week.”
The Pope’s agenda during Christmas week
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The Pope received this Saturday, in two separate audiences, the members of the Roman Curia, the “government” of the Catholic Church, as well as employees of the Holy See and the Vatican Governatorate.
Next week will be very busy for the 88-year-old Jesuit, who will open the holy door in St. Peter’s Basilica on Tuesday, December 24, marking the beginning of the jubilee of the Catholic Church that will last one year.
That same day he will celebrate Christmas mass.
The next day he will preside over another mass and deliver his message “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and the world), and on December 26, St. Stephen’s Day, he will open a holy door in the Roman prison of Rebibbia and celebrate a mass.
Source: Ambito
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