“Happy Sunday to all,” said the Pope for 88 years
Summary
Pope Francis, who is recovering from pneumonia, made a surprise apparition to the Jubilee of the sick in the Vatican, highlighting human fragility and the importance of inclusive health systems. He also renewed the appeals for peace in the regions in conflict, such as Ukraine, Sudan and Gaza.
Even recovering from pneumonia on both lungs, Pope Francis made a surprise apparition for the mass for the jubilee of the sick and the world of health in San Pedro Square, in the Vatican, this Sunday, 6.
The event is part of the calendar of the Holy Year of the Catholic Church in 2025, but the presence of the 88 -year -old pontiff had not been announced in advance.
“Happy Sunday to everyone, and thanks,” said the Pope, who wore a nasal cannula for the intake of oxygen and was taken from the wheelchair among the thousands of faithful gathered in the square.
According to the Vatican press room, before greeting the pilgrims of the Jubilee, Francis confessed to the Basilica of San Pietro and crossed the holy door of the main Catholic temple of the world, a ritual that symbolizes the purification of sins and forgiveness.
This is Jorge Bergoglio’s first appearance in an official event from hospitalization to the hospital of Agostino Gemelli in Rome on February 14th. The day he was discharged, on March 23, the Pope even briefly greeted the balcony of the Fedeli hospital, but since then he has been in prison at Casa Santa Marta, his official residence at the Vatican.
The Catholic leader should remain at least until the end of May and his participation in the events of Holy Week is still uncertain, between 13 and 20 April.
Francisco also prepared the homily read during the mass of the jubilee of the sick, in which he nodded in the harsh evidence he faced in recent weeks, when he was on the verge of death due to bilateral pneumonia caused by a polymicrobial infection.
“Certainly the disease is one of the most difficult and difficult tests of life. It can make us feel like people in exile or without hope for the future, but it is not so. Also in these times, God does not abandon us,” says the text read by the Italian archbishop Rino Fisichella, Pro-Mayor of the Dicker for evangelization.
“I share a lot with you, dear brothers and sick sisters, in this moment of life: the experience of the disease, to feel fragile, depend on others in many things, to need support. It is not always easy, but it is a school in which every day we learn to love and let ourselves be loved, abandoned and confident for what is coming”, adds the message.
The theme was also addressed to Angelus Dominical, released once again only in writing due to the difficulties that Francisco has yet to face.
“Dear, as during hospitalization, now at the time of convalescence I feel the finger of God. And please for doctors, nurses and health workers, who are not always able to work in adequate conditions and sometimes they are even victims of aggressions. Their mission is not easy and must be supported and respected”, wrote Ponteff, asking for investments for health systems to be careful “…
In the text of Angelus, the Pope also renewed the appeal for peace in Ukraine, in the Gaza Strip, “where people are forced to live in unimaginable conditions, homeless, food or clean water”, Sudan, South Sudan, democratic republic of the Congo, Haiti and Myanmar, the stage of a devastating earthquake after four years of civil war.
Source: Terra
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