Pope Francis has never returned to Argentine Christmas after he became the head of the Catholic Church. But some believers here believe that he sent a last message to the house in the most unlikely, but perhaps the most appropriate.
Francisco was a football fans and a member of his favorite club, San Lorenzo. This is the number of that card that has become a subject in Buenos Aires.
“It should be the destination,” said Ramiro Rodriguez, who arrived in a pink dress about the team’s shirt in a small chapel representing the club’s spiritual cradle, for a mass in honor of Francisco’s life.
The number that causes the new version is attributed to the “ordinary member” Jorge Mario Bergelio, the name of the Pope: 88235.
As many people emphasized, Francisco was 88 years old when he died at 2:35 am, Argentina at the day of Easter.
For Rodriguez, that was another supernatural, even the divine relationship.
Rodriguez, 23, said: “I went to the Vatican in 2019, and of course, I used my shirt from St. Loreno,” Rodriguez, 23, said.
In the forefront, the late Pope contributed to the following book of Cardinal Angelo Scola, who left an eloquent message about aging and death.
“Death is not the end of everything, but the beginning of something,” he wrote.
When talking to those who knew it well, it seems likely that he would also appreciate the good affection and nature of the desire to see a meaning in the number of members of the football club.
Omar Abboud knew the extent of his friend (who still knows him as Jorge) and how much he loved a joke, but at anyone’s expense.
Abboud said of the Pope: “He has a different kind of humor, which is a kind of joke that was with people, not about people. He has smart and insight.”
Abboud, an important Muslim leader in Argentina, formed the Institute of Dialogue between Religions with Cardinal Bergelio and Rabbi Daniel Goldman in 2002. They visited societies from each other, held general meetings and exchanged to break the barriers between religious groups.
Abboud said that he visited the Pope last in January, when the two talked about artificial intelligence and how it could be organized. He said that he learned a lot from his friend Jorge and his discussions about literature and sacred texts. She just started talking about him in the past.
He said, “He was a good friend, we needed him. Words are not enough.”
Francis is in the minds of everyone we know – from his friends to people who admired him from afar, and those who presented them.
Flowers and messages are left in honor of his childhood, a square in which he played football with other children, and the church where he heard God’s call to join the priesthood.
This church, Saint Joseph of Flores, has a printing of the history in which Francis received his profession while he was in confession – September 21, 1953.
Many candles were burned in honor of Francis so that the steps of the Capital Cathedral are covered with wax.
Seven days of official mourning were announced in honor of Francisco in Argentina, but everything will not be full of sadness.
The Mass, which was held at San Lorenzo chapel, is more like a incentive demonstration, and there will be another crowd for the next football match on Saturday, a few hours after Francis was buried in Rome.
The team will wear souvenirs to honor the late Pope, and there are rumors that a new stadium will be called “Pope Francisco”. On the sign of humility, Francis once wrote that she did not like this idea much.
A Swiss goalkeeper is used to keep Francisco update on the results of matches and progress in San Lorenzo, leaving notes on his table; The Pope said that he only watched television – in seismic events such as September 11 – since 1990.
Francisco said that his love for sports was not only to compete – and that San Lorenzo is just one of several teams from Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, who is passionate about football, whose players are the current World Cup champions – but to participate.
I believe that sport, especially team games, pushes young people away from the virtual paintings and life, and teaching them to live in the world.
The club may have lost the usual member 88235, but Buenos Aires will remember him.
Linking a homemade flag to the Cathedral Francisco and Saint Loreno to a simple phrase that appears to be applied to Buenos Aires today: “Mis Loves”, he loves me.
Francis re -wrote this love, and wrote in his book “Hope”: “My country, which I still feel the same great and deep love. The people who prayed every day, who formed me, who trained me and then presented to others.
In Flores, the working neighborhood in which Francis lived and worked, a woman left a note outside the home where he spent his childhood.
He said: “I was one of us – Argentine – and a gift to the world.”
