In Santa Maria, not the mayor, the Pope’s rosary, Parolin: Let’s raise our eyes to heaven

Guglielmo Gallone – Vatican Ciudad

In the center of Esplanade of Bazilica Santa Maria La, warm lights wrap the icon of Salos Bubuli Romanian and the image of Pope Francis. A little further, many believers, sitting, stand or gather in the middle of the square, surrounded by the sounds of Roman traffic and not far from the heart of the city that is the Termini station, expect to start praying. This is the second rosary that is celebrated in the Church of Liberia since Pope Francis returned to the father’s house. Cardinal Petro Parolin directs it. For prayer, an entire town. He served Francisco, loved and wanted to know to the end.

The importance of Liberian basilica

However, yesterday’s rosary was not at night at the moment of a meeting, but a return. To the house chosen by the Pope as a place for eternal rest. He wrote in his will: “I hope that my last Earth’s journey will end in the old Maryan haven.” Here, between the Polina chapel and the Sforza Church, its grave will be placed. On the ground, simple, with one word: Franciskos. Santa Maria was not the Red Municipality of Pontificate from Jorge Mario Bergolio. The first station after his choice, in the early hours of March 14, 2013, and the place to go before and after each Royal trip, in silence and gratitude, as well as the last time at the Jimili Hospital in Rome, which lasted 38 days. It exists specifically, as Francisco has deposited flowers, words, prayers and dreams, where his people now meet, around the Virgin that Pope has always considered “his security”.

Words of Cardinal BaroliN

Cardinal Petro Parolin confirmed in his letter a reading at the beginning of the pink. As the Apostle Paul reminds us, we are called to look at heaven and think about Christ sitting on the right of God, “Cardinal began. He continued: “Looking at the sky to ask the eternal life,” in prayer this afternoon, we note our beloved and beloved father to Mary the most holy Silos Popoli Roman. She, the lawyer of the Father, is moderate for us, “and concluded” our prayer “, entered, ousy, Dabri, and Gloria.

Among people, with people

Believers of all ages and all parts of the world are intertwining their fingers on crowns, not only respond to the Italian language, but also in Latin or Spanish. On the face of everyone, the living memory of the Pope that made the Bible its home. As in the case of Clara, who lives in Rome, he frequents Bazilica daily and comes from Japan: “We know that Pope Francis has always been devoted to virgin virgin but not official, with his heart,” he said to the Vatican media – we felt that the Pontifer loved Salos Popoli a lot. Also, we pray today was important for the continuation of hearts and spirit. Clara says in Japan: “The common proximity even hundreds of thousands of kilometers away because Clara, in Japan, feels that Pope Francis feel very close. His commitment against all kinds of violence and war had a great impact on people who suffered from the atomic bomb. In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I know that there are many people praying for him.”

Simple dAnd gestures

This afternoon, the simplest gesture is the highest. Because Francisco regains what he requested: a real and popular prayer. Like those he always prefers. Like those who saw him in the most difficult moments in Ponteneda, he kneels in front of the icon of Salos Popoli Romanian to struggle the end of the Covid-19 infection or the conflicts that fed it throughout his war “World War III to the pieces”. His education is recorded in the faces of those who meet around him today. A woman accepted the rosary, silent. A young mother notes with the love of how her son reads the words of our father. An old woman is still sitting all the time, perhaps because of her fragile health, yet she did not abandon her presence today.

End prayerthe

He is still of his will, Francisco wrote that the suffering of the last part of his life was offered to “for the sake of the world’s peace and brotherhood among peoples.” Also, therefore, in the last prayer, Mary protested not only as the mother of mercy, but as a source of hope for the entire people. People who cry today, but they are not alone. Not even, slowly, empty the Liberian basilica.