Audio: Pope Francis, with a tired voice, appreciates “with all my heart” the prayers for his health

Pope Francis thanked this Thursday “of all my heart”The sentences for their health that follow each other from February 24 every night in the Plaza Vaticana de San Pedro, in an audio message with a tired and chopped voice.

“I appreciate with all my heart the prayers you do for my health from the square, I accompany you from here. May God bless you and let the Virgin take care of them. Thank you”, Pray the short message spread at the beginning of the Rosary.

The 27 -second message, recorded this Thursday and in which the breath of the spiritual leader of 1.4 billion Catholics in the world is heard, was hosted with applause by the few hundred faithful present in the monumental square, the AFP found.

The 88 -year -old Argentine Jesuit has been hospitalized since February 14 at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome for bronchitis, which resulted in double pneumonia. Since then, he did not make any public appearance or spread his images.

In a message written on Sunday on the occasion of the Angelus, of which he was absent for the third consecutive week, the “Holy Father” of Catholics gave the “thank you”To the faithful for their prayers.

When 21 days have been completed since its hospitalization, the Pope’s state of health remained this Thursday “stable” and without new respiratory crises since Monday, the Vatican said.

“The clinical conditions of the Holy Father remained stable with respect to the previous days”, Reported in the medical part that sends every night since its hospitalization.

The Pontiff “Nor has it presented episodes of respiratory failure“No fever, according to the last part, which emphasizes, however,”Doctors still maintain the reserved prognosis”

Work, prayer and respiratory therapy

The pontiff spent the day alternating rest, prayer and some work, together with respiratory and motor physiotherapy, added the Vatican.

This hospitalization, the fourth and longer since 2021, generates concern about the previous problems that weakened the health of Jorge Bergoglio in recent years: operations in the colon and the abdomen, and difficulties in walking.

And he has relaunched the questions about his ability to perform his functions of Sumo Pontiff.

Francisco, who in recent times has ruled out the idea of ​​giving up the position as his predecessor Benedict XVI did in 2013, was absent on Wednesday of the main mass of imposition of ashes, which marks the beginning of Lent.

This rite activated the countdown of forty days until Easter, the most important party of the Catholic calendar and, for the moment, it is unknown if the pontiff will continue to be admitted for then.