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The Pope with young people at WYD in Krakow in July 2016 – Ansa
Pope Francis yes He will travel privately to Assisi on October 3 to sign his new encyclical “All Brothers” on fraternity and social friendship.
This was officially announced by the Press Office of the Holy See with a statement from the director Matteo Bruni.
At 3 in the afternoon Pope Francis will arrive at the Sacred Convent where he will celebrate Mass at the Tomb of Saint Francis, and at the end he will sign the encyclical.
“Due to the health situation – adds Bruni – it is the Holy Father’s wish that the visit be carried out privately, without the participation of the faithful.” As soon as the celebration is over, the Pontiff will return to the Vatican.
The news had been anticipated by Father Enzo Fortunato, director of the Press Room of the Sacred Convent.
On August 26, the Bishop of Rieti Domenico Pompili anticipated that a new encyclical “on the theme of human brotherhood” was imminent. It will be the third encyclical of the pontificate after The light of faith of June 29, 2013 and Praised dated May 24, 2015, and will most likely bear the date of October 4, liturgical feast of San Francisco.
The Custodian of the Sacred Convent, Father Mauro Gambetti, for his part declared: «With great joy and prayer we welcome and await the private visit of Pope Francis. A stage that will highlight the importance and need of fraternity ”.
Cme reminds VaticanNews that on October 3 there will be four visits by the Pope to the city of Poverello, after the stages of October 4, 2013 and the double of 2016, August 4 and September 20. A return that The Archbishop-Bishop of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino, Domenico Sorrentino, awaits with “emotion and gratitude”, as stated in a press release. “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 by Pope Francis – concludes the prelate – gives us new courage and strength to ‘start over’ in the name of the fraternity that unites us all.”
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