Despite the cold month of February in the eternal city, Francisco He has presided this Sunday in the Plaza de San Pedro the long closing Mass of the Jubilee of the Armed Forces and Police. The Pope had avoided leaving his home since Wednesday morning … but he has maintained his work agenda and has not recovered enough. Therefore, although during the Mass he has read some paragraphs of his homily, he has had to ask a collaborator to read her aloud on his part, then, he said, he has said “It is hard for me to breathe”.
“I apologize, but I ask the master of the liturgical celebrations that he continues to read the homily, because it costs me to breathe,” he explained himself after reading and improvising some paragraphs of this Sunday’s homily. The pontiff had a little cold voice, but without particular difficulties. After the Mass he has avoided traveling the place with the Papamóvil.
The ceremony participated in the ceremony, most of them members of the Armed Forces and the Police. Among them, there was a representation of some 400 Spanish, Army and the Civil Guard.
In addition to the Mass, Francisco has prayed with them the angelus at noon, during which he explained that the Catholic doctrine expects that The «armed service must be exercised only in legitimate defensenever to impose domination on other nations, always observing international conventions about conflicts and, above all, in the sacred respect of life and creation «.
Minutes before, in the homily of the Mass, they have explicitly given them thanks because they fulfill their task “sometimes risking their own lives” and has asked them “please, to watch Against the temptation to cultivate a spirit of war; watch for not being seduced by the myth of strength and noise of weapons; Watch for never contaminating by the poison of hate propaganda, which divides the world into friends to defend and enemies to fight «.
As a advice, he has proposed that they never lose sight of “the end of their service and their actions”, which is “Promote life, save life, always defend life”. He recalled that the armed forces and police have a “mission to the service of good, freedom and justice”, “always on the part of the legality and part of the weakest”, and that they work in “multiple dimensions of social and political life ». For example, in «the defense of our countries, the commitment to security, custody of legality and justice, the presence in penitentiaries, the fight against crime and the different forms of violence that threaten to alter social peace ». “And I also remember those who offer their important service in natural catastrophes, for the care of creation, for the rescue of lives in the sea, by the most fragile, for the promotion of peace,” he added.
As among the participants there were many military cappellanes, he stressed that “they do not provide their service – as sometimes it has been sadly in history – to bless perverse war actions”, but as “presence of Christ, who wants to accompany them, offer them. and closeness, encourage them to row inside and hold them in the mission they carry out every day ».
As he does every Sunday, during the Angelus, the Pope has asked for prayers for peace and recalled some current conflicts such as the crises «in the tormented Ukraine, in Palestine, in Israel and in all the Middle East, in Myanmar, in Kivu , in Sudan «. »That the weapons shut up everywhere and that the cry of the peoples who ask for peace is heard,” he cried out.
After the ceremony, he has abandoned the square in a dark fiat 500 and has avoided making the pilgrims with the Papamóvil. With the bronchitisit would not have been prudent.
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