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The director of the Vatican Press Office, Matteo Bruni, reported the painful impediment accused by the Pope, who was forced to rest. The celebration of the Te Deum this afternoon will be presided over by Cardinal Re, the Mass on January 1 by Cardinal Parolin. Tomorrow the Pontiff will recite the Angelus from the Apostolic Palace as planned
Alessandro De Carolis – Vatican City
A strong pain and the realization of not being able to be at the altar to conclude 2020 with the prayer of You gods and will begin in 2021 with the Mass on the Solemnity of the Mother of God and the World Day of Peace, except for the Angelus prayer that you will see regularly instead.
The news was given late in the morning by the director of the Vatican Press Office, Matteo Bruni, who informed the media that “due to a painful sciatica, the celebrations this afternoon and tomorrow morning in the Altar of the Chair of the Vatican Basilica will not be presided over by the Holy Father Francis ”.
Bruni specified that to replace the Pope in San Pietro by the You gods, scheduled for today at 5 p.m., will be Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, while the mass of January 1, 2021, starting at 10 a.m., will be presided over by the Cardinal Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin . “Tomorrow, January 1, 2021 – concluded the director of the Vatican Press Office – Pope Francis will in any case lead the prayer of the Angelus from the Library of the Apostolic Palace, as planned.”
