Vatican City (AP): A convalescent Pope Francis greeted the crowd in the Plaza de San Pedro on Palm Sunday, wishing more than 20,000 faithful a “Ramos Sunday, a good Holy Week”, in another public signal more re -elasioner of his recovery, his recovery of the recovery of pneumonia’s Fromion.
Many in the crowd approached to touch Francis’s hand or garments while they brought it in a wheelchair along a ramp to the main altar, where he is emitting his letter greeting in a microphone. The 88 -year -old Pope had no nasal tubes for supplementary oxygen, since he had a similar appearance last Sunday.
On his way back to the Basilica of San Pedro from where he had emerged, Francis stopped to bless a rosary and sacrificed Candy a child who greeted him.
Francis, 88, is entering his fourth week of convalescence during which doctors have advised him to avoid crowds. While Francis is clearly anxious to demonstrate that he feels better, he has not spoken more than a few words in public, since he recovers from a severe respiratory crisis. The Vatican said he was waiting to advise on what role he can play in the next events of Holy Week that lead to Easter Sunday.
It was his second in the Plaza de San Pedro before a crowd, after the unexpected appearance last Sunday that excited the faithful. Also with private with King Carlos III and Queen Camilla this week, and made an Impomptu tour for the Basilica of San Pedro, stopping to pray, and thank a couple or restaurateurs for their work in the Master Pines Basilica.
On Saturday, the eve of Holy Week, Francis went to the Basilica Mayor of Santa María in the center of Rome to pray in private before a favorite icon of the Virgin Mary, Salus Populi Romani. The Basilica, which are the visits typically before and after their trips abroad, was also its first stop after leaving the Gemelli hospital on March 23.
In the traditional Sunday blessing, the Pontiff thanked the faithful for their prayers. “In this moment of physical weakness, they help me feel the lock, compassion and tenderness of God equally more.” For the ninth week, including its five -week hospitalization as of February 14, the blessing was delivered as a text.
The Pope offered prayers for those who suffered in the conflict in Sudan, which marks his second anniversary on Tuesday, and by Lebanon, where the civil war began 50 years ago, as well as for peace in Ukraine, the Middle East, Congo, Sudan.
In a homily from Palm Sunday read by a Cardinal of the Vatican Top, Francis urged the faithful to take the cross “of those who suffer around us” to mark the beginning of the solemn Holy Week.
Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, vice president of the Faculty of Cardinals, directed the celebrations, leading a procession of cardinals around the central obelisk of the Piazza that carries a palm of ornate braid that remembers the triumphant entry branches of Jesús Tosalem, Sheen Tosalem, Sheen Tosalem, Sheen Tosalem, Sheen Tosalem, Sheen Tosalem, Sheen Tosalem.
The initial Welcom contrasts with the suffering that follows, which leads to its crucifixion, which Christians observe on Good Friday, followed by their resurrection, held on Easter Sunday.
The faithful emerged from the Plaza de San Pedro that had blessed palm leaves or olive branches to mark the occasion.
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