The last interview with the Cardinal Brevost about Francisco

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”. These are the characteristics of Pope Francis who have always admired Cardinal Robert Brevost, who was today chosen 267 Bishop of Rome as the fourteenth Liu. To the Vatican media, religious Augustine admits that he was always able to “his authentic Christian heart”, “his generosity”, “his charity” and “his desire to live this dimension from the Bible until the last days.”

Meetings in Argentina

I moved, the cardinal shared his personal memory of the chapter. The account that Jorge Mario Bergolio met when the bishop of Buens 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 chose him, Francisco celebrated his first general mass, on March 13, 2013, at the diocese of Santa Del Del Vatikano, who is confident of the pastoral care of the religious Augustine, and on that occasion he met Pervost again. “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 Aguosin, which lasted. “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 Peruvian people

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 with this rhetoric.” Prevost also remembers Francisco’s Apostolic visit to Peru in 2018, and that 99 -a blind woman from her diocese that reached Trujio because she wanted to contact the chapters. He got out of the car, approached it and received it. It has left many examples like this; “In his beautiful humanity, he wanted to live the gospel and transfer the Bible. Christ.”

Near another

Cardinal’s thought also returns to the first Royal trip to Pope Francis, to Lampedosa, to “his proximity to immigrants, even recent months, even when he wrote”, last February, that message to the bishops of the United States “about the importance of being close to being suffering from the heart of Jesus Christ”, when it was a program of illegal programs. After that, the Cardinal reminds the last visit of the Pope to Regeina Coeli, on the holy Thursday, a gesture, “She says everything: his desire to go, despite many health problems, the difficulties he faces, and to do them every year, to celebrate this important day in the church’s life with prisoners, and thus communicate with this proximity, this love that Jesus has all left.”

A weekly date

With Pope Francis, then, Premost, as the governor of Dicastery, had 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 first at 8 am. But sometimes I reached 7.30 o’clock and you were waiting for me, so I started going a little early and sometimes expected. ” Important issues were discussed, but Francisco often added a recommendation: “Tell me, among other things, at the end of the audience:” Do not lose humor, you have to smile. Prevost remembers the prayer of St. Thomas Moro, who was repeatedly cited by the Pope that he urged to move forward in “great liability things, with great confidence in the grace of the Lord. Work for bishops, and also – I know it through many conversations – from other trash.

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, Always remove it», Cardinal Augustine reflects, remembering the answers presented by Bergulio in an interview about the great association that Juanter wants. “There is a lot to do, you have to continue. “Spirit, a basic position for all of us; – He says Premost-we 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 for ten or twenty years ago, “purple color, so” – – – – the message – the message is always as it is: the announcement of the matter, it announces oppression and announces them. The world authorities and that it is necessary to move forward. “

A poor church walking with the poor

Among the teachings left by Francisco, it is necessary, above all, to cherish the “love of the poor”, as Cardinal says his love “a poor church, walking with the poor, who serves the poor.” “I think the Gospel’s message is better understood than the experience of the poor, who have nothing, trying 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 does the legacy of Pope Francis collect? “It is difficult to answer” a few hours after the death of the Pope, realizes with the object of Premost. “I personally think that this period of loss, 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, to really understand, what the Pope, the Church and the world left, “concludes to the Dicastery conservative of the bishops. For Cardinal Prevost, it is necessary to live at this moment, like the Holy Saturday, although we have already celebrated the creation of Christ”, to live in this great mystery that was life like Pope Francis.