He Pope francesco He led the Palm Sunday celebration which inaugurated Holy Week and again showed signs of tiredness which led him, for example, not to read the homily. In front of the 25 thousand people present in St. Peter’s Square, the Argentine pontiff read the Gospel but then transformed the words he had to pronounce in the Homily into a silence that dominated all those present until the beginning of the Creed.
Furthermore, Francis did not accompany the procession of faithful, celebrants and cardinals who crossed the center of the square to the central obelisk of the square, who carried the palms which commemorate the arrival of Christ in Jerusalem and were blessed in one of the oldest rites of the Catholic faith.
Dad he blessed the olive branches which the faithful and many cardinals carried, without moving from the Altar.
Holy Week will end next Easter Sunday, when Catholics will celebrate the resurrection of Christ who died on the cross. In the program of celebrations, on Thursday the Pope will visit a prison and wash feet. On Friday he will have to preside over the night procession of the Via Crucis at the Colosseum in Rome, which commemorates the crucifixion of Christ.
The Easter Vigil will take place on Saturday, during which the Pope will preside over a night service in St. Peter’s. On Sunday the Easter Mass is held in St. Peter’s Square and the blessing of the pontiff “Urbi et Orbi”, to the city of Rome and to the world”, which puts an end to the celebrations of Holy Week.
In his Romos Sunday Angelus preaching. Francis expressed himself his pain for the victims “of the cowardly terrorist attack” in Moscow. He thus expressed his sorrow for the attack on the theater in the Russian capital, which occurred two days ago, which caused at least 133 deaths.
Pope Francis has once again shown signs of tiredness. Photo: AFPThe Pope asked God to welcome the entire victim and comforted the family by asking for the conversion of the hearts of those who plan, organize and carry out these inhumane actions “which offend God, who commanded ‘thou shalt not kill'”.
Francis also warned of the “risk of an even greater humanitarian catastrophe in Ukraine and recalled the situation in Gaza “which suffers greatly”.
Source: Clarin
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