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FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF POPE FRANCIS' PONTIFICATE
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NOTICE
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FIRST
ANNIVERSARY OF POPE FRANCIS' PONTIFICATE
Vatican
City, 12 March 2014 (VIS) – Tomorrow, 13 March, will be the first
anniversary of the election of Pope Francis to the See of St. Peter.
These 365 days of his papacy have been characterised as a “time of
mercy”, as described by the Pope himself. During these twelve
months of intense activity, the Pope “from the end of the earth”
who asks us to pray for him, has started out on a new way of working
that, with a slow but sure pace, has drawn renewed attention to
issues not only of an ecclesiastical nature. The “priest of the
world”, as his special secretary Msgr. Alfred Xuereb calls him,
“has not wasted a minute! He works tirelessly and, when he feels
the need to take a moment's pause, he closes his eyes and does
nothing: he simply sits and prays the Rosary”.
To
commemorate this first anniversary, the director of the Holy See
Press Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi, S.J., gave an interview with
Vatican Radio in which he reflects on this year and its “great
impulse to a journeying Church”.
“The
most important aspect of this first year is without doubt the great
attention, the great attraction of the people – I say the people,
meaning not only practising Catholics, but everyone in this world –
the great attention for this Pope, for his message. It is something
that I think and hope is very deeply rooted in the heart of the
people, who have felt touched by a word of love, attention, mercy,
closeness, proximity, in which through the man, the Pope, the love of
God arrives”.
“The
Church truly seems to be a journeying people. This is her most
characteristic aspect: a sense of great dynamism. The Pope has given
a great impulse and journeys with a Church that seeks God's will,
that seeks her mission in today's world for the good of all, truly
going out to the peripheries, to the ends of the world”, he
continues, adding that there are “manifestations of attention,
therefore, that come from places, from atypical organs of the press”,
that “mean that his message reaches its target”.
NOTICE
Vatican
City, 12 March 2014 (VIS) – We inform our readers that tomorrow,
Thursday 13 March, the first anniversary of the election to the
pontificate of the Holy Father Francis, no bulletin will be
transmitted. The service will resume on Friday, 14 March.
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can find more information at: www.visnews.org
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