Pope Francis leads the prayer of the cross, on the great Catholic Friday

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Paul Tecuceanu,

Friday, April 10, 2020, 10:45 p.m.

Pope Francis led the Calea Crucii procession in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Friday night. A market that was missing, this time, due to restrictions caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the tens of thousands of Catholic believers who will celebrate Easter on Sunday.

Two groups of five people took the cross from one station to another: on the one hand, the prisoners of the “Due Palazzi” penitentiary in Padua (Italy), the meditations were prepared by some of them, and on the other, the doctors and nurses of the medical services of the Vatican City State. This is how you want to submit to the feet of the Crucifix both the sufferings of the invisible by society, as well as the sacrifice of life and the costly efforts of the doctors and medical personnel who are on the front line in the fight against the pandemic. of the coronavirus, reports the Romanian edition of the Vatican news.

“Prison is like a kaleidoscope and it is always a great danger to tell a detail to the detriment of the whole. The resurrection of a human being is never the work of a single person, but of a community that works in alignment,” said Pope Francis.

From 18:00, Pope Francis presided over the Celebration of the Passion of the Lord in St. Peter’s Basilica, where the Crucifix was first covered. After the initial procession, the Pope prostrated himself before the altar of the cathedral.

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The Pope, live, on the phone, on television.

“Hello? Good afternoon, Lorena! What are you doing? This is how the live telephone conversation that Pope Francis had on Friday night with the moderator of the program” A sua imagen “,” Lorena Bianchetti “, held in Rai Uno .

A few minutes before the end of the Good Friday broadcast, the moderator asked Pope Francis how he is experiencing this difficult period of the Coronavirus pandemic.

I think of the crucified Lord and of so many situations with the crucifixes of history, but also of today, of this pandemic: doctors, assistants, assistants, nuns, priests … Dead at the front, like soldiers, who gave their lives for love, resistant like Mary under their own crosses, from their communities, in hospitals, caring for the sick. There are still crucified and crucified people dying of love

Pope Francis, lives in Rai Uno

In the Roman or Latin calendar it was Good Friday. On this day, the Church, according to an ancient tradition, does not celebrate the sacraments, apart from the sacrament of Penance and the anointing of the sick.

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