Cardinal Prevost: Francisco, the generous Pope, has given everything

Tiziana Campi – Vatican Cydad

Coordination, originality and desire to live in the gospel and this is the special proximity of the poor and those who suffer. Then the love of the church, that desire to “give everything to serve it” and “her sense of responsibility”. It is the personal characteristics of Pope Francis that always admired the Cardinal Robert Brevost, the governor of Decicieria Bishops. As for the Vatican media, the Cardinal Agustino was hoping that he would always appreciate him on his “authentic Christian heart”, “his generosity”, “charitable”, and “his desire to live this dimension from the Bible until recent days.”

Meetings in Argentina

Enthusiastic, the Dicastery President shares his personal memories of the Pope. He says he met Jorge Mario Bergolio when the bishop of Boinos Aires was describing some aspects of his personality and recounting stories. “I always had the impression of the man who wanted to live in originally, with cohesion,” he says. “In the times when I was a year before Augustine, several times, during the visits of my brothers in Argentina, when he was still Cardinal, I had the opportunity to meet him and talk to him, informally and about more institutional issues.”

Francisco Bob celebrated his first general mass, on March 13, 2013, in the diocese of Santa Dell Vatikano, who is confident of pastoral sponsorship, and on that occasion he was collected. “I wondered whether I was going to remember me and when he got and entered the speed, and my vision, got to know me immediately and we started talking.” Dialogue, at the time before the command of San Agusen, which continued. “With my state ended in the same year, we thought about the call of the Holy Father to head, on August 28, the opening bloc of the Public Set” in Bazilica Saint Agoustine in Campo Marzio, Rome. Bergolio, “surprising everyone”, agreed to Sorour. He knew that church well, because when he came to the capital, as a basic rule, he always remained close, at the clergy’s home, at Via Della Scrofa, and he was praying to the grave of Santa Monica, who was kept there.

The Pope’s concern for the people of Peru

A little more than a year later, on November 3, 2014, Francisco appointed a former official of the Chicoli diocese (Peru), then the bishop. As a sponsor of that small herd in the Lambayeque region, religious Augustine continued to meet the Pope, who has always expressed his concern about that people. She asked me, “How are you? How are things? ”

“He gave a lot to the church,” his gestures of rapprochement speaks greatly. ”

“He got out of the car, approached it and received it. We left with many examples like this; in her beautiful humanity, she wanted to live the Bible and transport the gospel,” says Daviri Bishop Governor. It also highlights the joy of Bergolio, and he himself is the one who illuminates the Apangelii Gaudium “about the announcement of the Bible in today’s world”, “He reminds us of what the Bible says, and what we repeat at this time: that we live the joy of nuts, from faith, to confess Jesus Christ.”

Near the end

Cardinal Brevost’s thinking is also due to Pope Francis That message to the bishops of the United States “It is important to be close to those who suffer from the heart of Jesus Christ,” when the mass deportation program for immigrants and illegal refugees was launched.

After that, the Cardinal mentions The last visit to the Pope to Regeina Cole PrisonOn the holy Thursday, there is a gesture, “everything says: his desire to go, despite many health problems, and the difficulties he faces, every year, to celebrate with prisoners on this important day in the church’s life, and thus communicate this proximity, this love that Jesus all left.”

A weekly date

With Pope Francis, then, Prevost, as the governor of Dicastery of the bishops, was a fixed date for two years, every Saturday morning.

“Until the end, he wanted to give everything to his ministry, his work, to serve him in the church,” he followed the Cardinal, and he talked about his weekly confrontation with the ink. “At the beginning she was at eight in the morning. But sometimes I reached 7.30 and I was waiting for me, so I started going just before, he was expected.” Important issues were discussed, but Francisco often added Aida: “Tell me, among other things, at the end of the audience:“ Do not lose humor, you have to smile. ” Church service, “Prevaost, with determining that the Pope was always” very good to things.

The church is always to fix it

In Pontevity, “This spirit has moved to all the spirit of this desire to continue what started with the second Vatican Council, and the need to always renew the church,” Semper Reformanda “,” Cardinal Augustine, and remembers the answers presented by Bergoglio in an interview about the great gathering that Juante twenty -third wants.

“There is a lot to do, we must continue.” Prevost says, the soul, which is a basic position for all of us, cannot stop, we cannot return. We have to see how the Holy Spirit wants the Church today and tomorrow, because today’s world, in which the Church lives, is not the same one who was ten or twenty years ago, “Cardinal is considered,” therefore, the message is always the same: Jesus declares Christ, and announces the Bible, but the way to reach young men today, to the youth, to the poor, to politicians, it is different. Leave a strong message to the world authorities and that it is necessary to move forward.

A poor church walking with the poor

Among the teachings left by Francisco, we must cherish, above all, “the love of the poor”, as Cardinal says, his desire for “a poor church, walking with the poor, who serves the poor.”

“I think the Bible’s message is better understandable than the experience of the poor, who have nothing,” reflects the Cardinal, who tries to live faith and find everything in Jesus Christ. I think in this sense the Pope left a very great example of the world. Personally, he left me, for my work as a bishop in Peru, as a missionary, and for many other things. “

Thinking and gratitude

But how do you resume the legacy of Pope Francis? “It is difficult to respond” a few hours after the death of the Pope, realizes with the object of Premost.

“I personally think that this period of loss and sadness must live, in the first place, in silence, with a deep reflection, gratitude., At least, I will need a lot of time to appreciate it, to really understand, what the Pope left, to the church and the world,” the governor of Dicastery approaches the bishop. As for the Cardinal, it is necessary to “live at this moment, like the sacred Saturday, although we have already celebrated the resurrection of Christ”, to live this great puzzle that Pope Francis wanted to teach us.