Exequias from the Holy Father: The Pope with an open heart for everyone

Sebastian Samson Ferrari – Vatican City

Under the clear sky on the spring morning, Plaza de San Pedro was the theater, on Saturday, April 26, 2025, from the Holy Liturgy of the late Pope Francis, who left for the father’s house on Monday from the angel, April 21, at the age of 88.

Cardinal Giovanni Batista presided over the Cardinal Giovanni Batista, who was deeply and beloved of Argentine teeth, while highlighting his legacy in humility, proximity and service. Passing party, as Francisco has arranged itself, which was attended by more than 200,000 people.

“We gathered in prayer around their deadly remains with the sad heart, but we have preserved it by certainty of faith.” “The human existence does not end in the grave, but in the Father’s house, in the life of happiness you will not know the sunset.”

The tribute was universal like intimacy: the delegations of dozens of countries, leaders of other religious confessions and thousands of believers all over the world fill the arena. The Cardinal said: “The huge appearance of affection and participation that we saw these days (…) explains to us the amount of minds and hearts that Pope Francis touched the extreme.”

One of the most emotional moments in the sermon was the last anniversary of a public appearance of the Holy Father: “His last image, which will remain in our eyes and in our hearts, It is last Sunday“Easter seriousness”, when Pope Francis, despite the serious health problems, wanted to give us a blessing from the balcony of Basilica (…) in the last hug with all God’s people. “

Inspired by the Bible that he announced during the bloc (JN 21), the Cardinal linked Pope Francis with the personality of the Messenger Peter, the first Pontef: “This will be the continuous task of Peter and his successors, a service of love in the image of Christ, Lord and the Master, who” did not serve, but to serve and save it in the rescue. “

The Cardinal said, and this path of service was exactly the path chosen by Francisco. “Despite the fragility and final suffering, Pope Francis chose this travel path until the last day of his earthly life.” Like a good shepherd, “He loved his sheep until he gave his private life,” citing the Messenger Paul: “Happiness is more than he received.”

Cardinal also reviewed the decisive moments in his life: his choice as a teeth on March 13, 2013, his passage through the community of Jesus, and more than two decades of pastoral service in Buenos Aires. He highlighted the choice of his name, Francisco, as a “software and style” decision, inspired by San Francisco de Assis and this would represent his path.

“The Pope was in the midst of people with his heart is open to everyone,” Re.

The Holy Randing Mass of the Roman Pope Francisco, April 26, 2025.

One of the central axes of the doctrine was the focus of Pope Francis in Mercy, a concept that defined Pontificate. Red said: “Pope Francis has always placed in the center of the Gospel of Mercy, and he constantly highlights that God does not get tired of our nails: He always forgives.” This was the conviction that prompted The extraordinary jubilee of mercy in 2015-2016He declared that mercy is “the heart of the Bible.”

“It was countless of the gestures and directions for the benefit of the refugees,” the Cardinal said, “It was countless of his gestures and directions for the benefit of refugees and the displaced,” where he brought his first trip to Lamdosa, the symbol of migrant drama, and his courageous visit to Iraq in 2021, where “the difficult apostolic visit was a conditioner above the open coincidence of the IRQ residents. “

He continued, that his message knew how to get “the hearts of people directly and immediately”, and his attractiveness was able to “awaken the moral and spiritual forces” of humanity that need comfort and rationality.

In his tireless defense of peace, Francisco denounced the firmness of the logic of war: “war”, as he said, “No more than the death of people, the destruction of homes, hospitals and schools.” “War, the world always leaves worse than it was in precedence: it is for all the painful and tragic defeat.”

In this spirit, he promoted the culture of the meeting against “the culture of disposal”, and announced with insistence: “Building bridges, not the walls.”

The Holy Randing Mass of the Roman Pope Francisco, April 26, 2025.

“The priority of the preaching was Pontificate,” Re, in reference to Farah the BibleThe first eloquence of the Apostolic, as he called on the believers to announce the Bible with joy and hope.

Near the end of the preaching, the cardinal collected one of the most distinctive phrases of the Pope: “Do not forget to pray for me.” He added with an enthusiastic voice:

With this message of gratitude and hope, the Caliph Church 266 rejected Peter: a simple shepherd, an emotional servant of the Bible and a man – as he dreamed of himself – knows how to live and die with a “scent of sheep”.