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Swabs free for those who cannot afford them. It is one of the concrete signs of the fourth “World Day of the Poor” wanted by French Pope and that will be held on Sunday, November 15. The theme chosen this year by Bergoglio is significant: “Shake hands with the poor.” Monsignor Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization and director of the event, explained that “inclinic under the colonnade of Saint Peter, by Apostolic Charity, because I poor who should have access to bedroom or for those who want to return to their homeland, it is possible to buffer. The clinic is open from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and, in two weeks, has carried out 50 tampons per day, in addition to vaccine antiinfluenzale “.
One more gesture of solidarity loved by Bergoglio for the poorest people who crowd the streets of Rome every day and in particular around the Vatican. “As you can imagine – Fisichella specified – the traditional posters that have been created in recent years, I am referring in particular to medical unit in St. Peter’s Square and at lunch with 1,500 poor people together with the Pope in the Paul VI Hall, they were suspended to adapt to current regulations. There pandemic, however, it did not prevent concrete signs for this day “.
In the same way, added the prelate, the generosity of some benefactors did not fail. “On the contrary, it has extended and did even more effective. That is why we have managed to create very simple signs that express the closeness and attention of Pope Francis in this situation ”. In particular, they were sent 5 thousand food packages basic needs for families of approx. sixty Roman parishes who, especially in this pandemic period, are in trouble. Each box contains foods of various types: pasta, rice, tomato sauce, oil, fine and coarse salt, flour, coffee, sugar, jam, tuna, biscuits and chocolate, along with some More expensive and a ticket with a sentence of Pope Francis.
Beyond 2 and a half tons from pasta they were intended for different family houses and charities. They were also sent 350 thousand masks for 15 thousand students on the outskirts of Rome. A gesture, explained Fisichella, that “also wants to be a Invitation ai Young people students so that they do not underestimate the risks of the pandemic, especially with behaviors that may harm once they return to the family with the presence of older people ”.
On Sunday, November 15, at 10 a.m., in St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis will preside over the transmission to celebrate the day of the poor. To respect the anti-contagion rules, they will be present at the celebration. one hundred poor, representing all the needy people in the world. the readings will be proclaimed by people who come every day assisted by charities that have not stopped giving their support even in these months marked by the pandemic.
In message For this day, the Pope stressed that the theme chosen for the event “highlights, on the contrary, the attitude of those who support hands in pocket and they are not moved by poverty, of which they too are often accomplices ”. Indifference and cynicism are “their daily food,” wrote Bergoglio. “There are outstretched hands to quickly touch the keyboard from a computer and move sums of money from one part of the world to another, decreeing the wealth of a few and the misery of multitudes or the failure of entire nations ”, says the Pontiff. Around the world, Pope Francis points out, there are “hands outstretched” to accumulate money by selling weapons and of road. There are those who trade “illegal favorime for an easy and corrupt profit ”. And there are also those “establish laws than himself does not observe“. For Bergoglio“ we cannot be happy until these hands that sow death will not be transformed into instruments of justice and of He passed for the whole world “.
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