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The Good Friday procession is one of the rare occasions when the Pope does not preach, he leaves it to his father Ranier Kantalamesa, the preacher of the papal house.
The preacher said that the pandemic, which has killed nearly 19,000 people in Italy, should be an incentive for everyone to appreciate what really matters in life.
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“Let us not allow so much pain, so many deaths and so much heroic commitment on the part of health workers to be in vain. Returning to the current situation is the ‘recession’ that we should be most afraid of,” he said.
This procession is usually attended by cardinals, bishops and 10,000 faithful. However, due to crowning conditions, there were around 25 people in the church, including the pope’s assistants who were reading the Scriptures and a smaller than usual choir.
In another change from the usual ritual dictated by the coronavirus epidemic, only the Pope kissed the cross at the end of the service. Usually, the cross is kissed by every cardinal and bishop who is in the church.
The global death toll from the pandemic has reached 100,000 today, according to Reuters.
The preacher said the pandemic “woke us up from the greatest danger man and humanity are prone to: the illusion of omnipotence.”
“It only took the smallest and most amorphous element in nature, a virus, to remind us that we are mortal, that military power and technology are not enough to save us,” he said.
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Tonight, the Pope led the procession of the Way of the Cross, on the outer steps of the Basilica in the empty plaza of San Pedro.
It will be the first time that Cross Road has not taken place at the Colosseum in Rome, since Pope Paul VI reintroduced modern tradition in 1964.
What he said about doctors and nurses.
“The doctors, nurses, sisters, priests” who died fighting the coronation pandemic “died on the front line as soldiers who gave their lives for love,” Pope Francis told Rai1 television on Good Friday for Catholics. .
The pontiff believes that these men and women have joined the “crusaders of history”. He spoke on the phone in a program dedicated to Good Friday, a day that focuses on the crucifixion and the death of Jesus.
“I feel close to the people of God, especially to those who suffer the most, to the victims of the pandemic, to the pain of the world,” said the Pope. But he also said he was considering “hope, that he can’t bear the pain but doesn’t disappoint.”
Tonight, under the torchlight, the spiritual leader of the 1.3 billion Catholics will follow the Way of the Cross, the procession of the way from Christ to Golgotha, in a very limited format this year in St. Peter’s Square in Rome. , access in which it has been prohibited by the police.
For this sequence, you will be accompanied by a group of five prisoners from the Padua prison and a group of five Vatican doctors and nurses.
Since 1964, the Crossroads in the presence of the Pope has been celebrated with thousands of faithful around the illuminated Colosseum.
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