Pizzaballa chairs the Pope in Santa Maria: from pain to hope

Roberto Bagallonga – Vatican City

The appearance went to Salus Popoli Romani, the heart hanging in the motor memory of Pope Francis. Believers from all over the world arrived to give the last farewell to the Pope, whose funeral will take place on Saturday from ten in the morning in San Pedro, the cemetery is filled in front of Bazilica Santa Maria La. In their hands, the pool, who reads in complete harmony, carries its guidance by the Cardinal Perbatista Bizabala, the Latin Patriarch in Jerusalem, just to Rome to participate in the range that will be opened within a few days.

“Symbol” icon from Pontificate

This is the fourth consecutive afternoon in which God’s people gather here to celebrate the Pope, who returned to the father’s house on April 21, Easter on Monday. The Byzantine icon of the Virgin, which is traditionally attributed to San Lucas, which has become a symbolic trustee on Puntpt Birgolian, now guarantees prayers while welcoming and accompanying his eternal comfort in the body of the Pope, who was asked to be buried in the Liberian Basilica. And that he was in this church, very loved by the Romans, a few days before his death.

Bezabala: “Let’s trust the Lord and his word.”

Before the secret of the Earth’s pilgrimage to eternal life, they are exposed to the risk of seizing confusion and despair, as happened to the students, who, who do not think about the events that lived with the death and the death of Jesus, closed themselves. in vain. Because they had to surrender to this event that was announced and was happening day after day before their eyes. Therefore, we are also today – Cardinal Bizabala said in the message with the secrets of the painful rosy – “fond of allowing us to overcome” for despair, instead we recover instead, “to trust the Lord and his word,” because this means his followers. True, the Cardinal admitted, “With the death of our beloved father Francisco, we also face the difficulty of faith” and we tend to erase the promise that Christ made for us. To overcome fear and the danger of emptiness, “We want to ask Maria the blessed, Salos Bubuli Roman, to help us raise our hearts and turn this watch from pain to the dawn of hope.” Specifically for this hope, Pope Francis wanted to devote this holy year. For this reason: “The condolences of the injured, the average for us”, Bizabala concluded his motivation before the pink prayer.

Young people in Hajj from Latin America

The same renewed feeling of confidence that the Patriarch summoned, along with the spring breeze that explodes these days in the streets and alleys in the eternal city, heated almost completely square souls. A colored group of Latin American children, from Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, filled the waiting and dance, while the sirens around them did not give the traffic of passers -by and the capital of the armistice. He was carrying the green bag from the jubilee on his shoulders, and waved a great knowledge with the face of Carlo Akotis, whose sanctification was postponed, scheduled for April 27. They say: “We have come for him, but we decided to stay equally, with thought in the Holy Father.”

United in prayer from Pope Francis

Others gathered in a personal prayer: some for a sick family member, others by their families, others for peace, others for children who suffer, others for their homeland, others have a light. They are all united on the memory of the “Pope”, who found them for 12 years in every corner of the earth, which now gathered them in Rome, before the image of “Virgin”, which was very religious, for the last hug. Before allowing them to leave and send them again to the world, to testify to the “new truth” that is celebrated with Easter.

The pink prayer was concluded with the song “Salve Regina”, Lauretan Litanies, the prayer of God’s mother and “Regeina Coeli”.