Pope Francis has paid public tribute, this Thursday, to the Virgin of the Immaculate, in the Plaza de España in Rome, next to the Spanish embassy to the Holy See, and he has transferred the “plea” of the children, fathers, mothers and elders who are still suffering from the war in Ukraine.
“Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, I would have wanted to bring you today the gratitude of the Ukrainian people for the peace that we have been asking the Lord for a long time. Instead, I still have to present to you the plea of children, the elderly, fathers and mothers, of the youth of that tortured land”, the Pontiff prayed, between tearsduring the public tribute, which has been resumed after two years without being held due to the pandemic.
The Pope arrived at the Plaza de España at 3:47 p.m., where he was received by the Mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, and by the Cardinal Vicar Angelo De Donatis. After blessing the large basket of white roses, listening to the litany to the Virgin sung by the choir of the diocese of Rome, Francis stressed that these wreaths, placed by many citizens, express love and devotion to the Virgin of the Immaculate, according to the official website of the Vatican Vatican News.
In addition, the Pontiff has transferred the Virgin of the Immaculate “the filial love of countless men and women, not just Christians”. “Because in the midst of so many dark clouds you are a sign of hope and comfort,” she remarked. It has also brought him “the smiles of children”, the “thanks of the elderly”, the “concerns of families struggling to make ends meet” and the “dreams and anxieties” of young people, “open to the future but held back by a culture full of things and poor in values, saturated with information and lacking in education, persuasive in deception and ruthless in deception”.
Before leaving the Plaza de España, the Pope greeted, on foot and then with the help of a wheelchair, the many faithful who prayed with him. Three hours earlier, at the Angelus, he had asked the faithful present in Saint Peter’s Square to join him spiritually in the gesture of veneration of the Immaculate Conception, to whose intercession he has entrusted “the universal desire for peaceespecially for the tormented Ukraine, which suffers so much”.
Source: Lasexta
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