Francisco, in the last Angelus of his stay at the Gemelli Hospital, He indicated the importance of patience that induces men to conversion. The Pontiff underlined the care of medical personnel who attended him and then expressed his pain for the resumption of bombings on Gaza. Hope for the agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia, the media reported Vatican News.
The Angelus text spread again in writing, as in recent weeks, since Francisco must continue with his rehabilitation to be able to recover his voice completely.
The most difficult and painful situations require “confident patience, anchored in the love of God.” As the one experienced by the Pope who, on the day of his return to the city of the Vatican, in the text prepared for the Angelus, the last of his stay in the Gemelli Polyclinic, indicated the importance of “patience”, necessary for human life.
It is the patience of God, as the Gospel indicates, which drives the faithful to make their lives “a time of conversion”, as the farmer who expects the fruit of the sterile fig. The Lord, the “patient farmer,” the land of the life of men to wait to confidence his “return to him.”
“In this long time of hospitalization, I have experienced the patience of the Lord, which I also see reflected in the tireless care of doctors and health personnel, as well as in the attention and hopes of the relatives of the sick. This confident patience, anchored in God’s unfailing love, is really necessary in our life, especially to face the most difficult and painful situations”
Gaza’s bombing pain
Francisco once again expressed his pain for the resumption of Israeli bombings on Gaza, with so many dead and wounded, and his concern about the serious humanitarian situation.
“I ask for the immediate cessation of weapons and that you have courage to resume dialogue, free all hostages and reach a definitive fire. The humanitarian situation in the strip is again very serious and requires the urgent commitment of the belligerent parts and the international community”
The agreement in the southern Caucasus
“On the other hand, hope comes true in the southern Caucasus, where an agreement was reached”
“On the other hand, I am pleased that Armenia and Azerbaiyan have reached an agreement on the final text of the Peace Agreement. I hope it is signed as soon as possible and can thus contribute to the establishment of a lasting peace in the southern Caucasus.”
Francisco concluded thanking all those who pray for him, with a plea to “cease wars and make peace, especially in the tormented Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Myanmar, Sudan and the democratic republic of the Congo.”
Leave the hospital
Francisco left the hospital, in whose doors dozens of people and media had gathered, aboard the small utility they usually use for his displacements and that will take him to the Vatican, where numerous faithful also gathered to see his reappearance on the screens placed in the Plaza de San Pedro.
The 88 -year -old pontiff left the hospital shortly after appearing to the apartment window in which he has spent recent weeks, in his first public appearance to greet and give his blessing after a hospitalization in which he suffered two serious crises that put his life in danger.
“I thank everyone,” he said before the crowd that crowded from an hour before the doors of the center and the television cameras of half the world, after appearing in a wheelchair, with good appearance and smiling.
“I see that lady with the yellow flowers, that well,” he added in a very weakened voice, after the prolonged use of oxygen during his hospitalization has weakened his throat muscles, so he couldn’t say anything else.
This is the first public appearance of the Pope since on February 14 he entered the Gemelli due to his breathing problems, which were due to bronchitis due to polymicrobiological infection to which bilateral pneumonia joined, and where he suffered “two very critical episodes that endangered their life,” according to their doctors.
On March 6, the Pope sent an audio message, in Spanish and with a very fatigued voice, during the Rosario for his restoration that pray every night in the Plaza de San Pedro and last Sunday the Vatican published the first photo of the Pontiff in the Gemelli.
“These days I have felt so much the support of this closeness of yours, especially through the prayers with which you have accompanied me,” said the pontiff this Saturday in a message from the hospital on the occasion of the jub from the retirement pilgrimage of the Archdiocese of Naples (southern Italy). EFE