“I have a bad cold that prevents me from speaking”, Pope Francis has suspended the reading of two speeches due to health problems

Pope Francis woke up this Thursday with a severe cold therefore he could not read the speeches he had prepared for today’s various hearings and had to do so undo the last one in the morningreports the Vatican press office.

“I should read all this, the translation of which you hold in your hand. But I can’t read because I’m sick: I have a cold that won’t let me talksaid the Pope as he received the young priests and monks of the Eastern Orthodox Churches in audience this Thursday.

The Vatican reported that due to “a severe cold”, the pope could not read his speech and handed it to the participants and the same thing happened when he also received a delegation from the Max Planck society.

While the last hearing scheduled for this morning, in which the Ymca Christian Youth Federation should have received, had to be canceled due to the cold, the Vatican added.

Francis presided without problems on Wednesday afternoon the celebration of the imposition of the Ashes with which Lent begins in the basilica of Santa Sabina, on the Roman Aventine, even if he did not participate in the traditional procession due to mobility problems.

On Sunday he will begin a retreat together with other members of the Roman Curia during which he will limit his activities and carry out the traditional spiritual exercises at the beginning of the so-called Lent of the Catholic tradition, which lasts until Easter.