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The document bears the subtitle “On fraternity and social friendship.” The Pope will sign it after the Mass celebrated in the Franciscan Basilica. The ceremony will be without faithful in compliance with the current health situation
Alessandro De Carolis – Vatican City
On the tomb of the Saint who seized the brotherhood in each creature of God and transformed it into a timeless song. From there begins the new stage of the teaching of the Pope who chose to bear the name of the Umbrian saint. After The light of faith (2013) and Praised (2015) – which also in the title echoes the incipit of the Canticle of the Creatures – this time it is the city of Poverello to baptize the third encyclical “Brothers all” on fraternity and social friendship, which takes its title from the writings of Saint Francis: “Let us look, brothers, at the good shepherd who, to save his sheep, sustained the passion of the cross”. (Warnings, 6, 1: FF 155)
The Pope will sign it on the afternoon of October 3 after arriving in Assisi at 3:00 p.m. and having celebrated Mass in the lower Basilica. A celebration still conditioned by the pandemic, as reported by the director of the Vatican Press Office, Matteo Bruni, information from the Prefecture of the Pontifical Household, according to which Francis wants the visit “to take place in private, without the participation of the faithful “. , due to the “health situation”. As soon as the celebration is over, the Pope will return to the Vatican.
The quotation from Saint Francis from which the title of the encyclical is taken
In the heart of a magisterium
The title of the last document refers to a central value of the magisterium of Francis, who on the night of his election, March 13, 2013, is presented to the world with the word “brothers.” And brothers are the invisible ones that he embraces in Lampedusa, the immigrants, in his first departure from the Pope. Shimon Peres and Abu Mazen, who shake the Pope’s hand in 2014, are also an example of that fraternity that has peace as its goal. Until the Abu Dhabi Declaration last year, also in this case a document on “human brotherhood” that, Francis would say, “comes from faith in God, who is the Father of all and the Father of peace.”
Sorrentino: from the Pope’s gesture the strength to restart
The Pope will visit Assisi four times with the one on October 3, after the stages of October 4, 2013 and twice in 2016, on August 4 and September 20. A return that the bishop of the city, Domenico Sorrentino, awaits with “emotion and gratitude,” according to what he said in a statement. “While the world suffers a pandemic that puts many peoples in difficulties and makes us feel like brothers in pain, we cannot help but feel the need to be above all brothers in love,” writes Bishop Sorrentino, who speaks of “fraternity cosmica “by S. Francis. “This gesture of Pope Francis – concludes the Bishop of Assisi – gives us new courage and strength to ‘restart’ in the name of the fraternity that unites us all.”
