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A few days before the most beautiful feast of the year, Pope Francis acknowledged on Wednesday that this time “restrictions and inconveniences await us, but let’s think about the Christmas of Mary and Saint Joseph: not everything was roses and flowers».
Addressing the faithful of the whole world from his library, the Pope commented in the general audience that, amid the difficulties and concerns of Mary and Joseph during those days, “the faith, hope and love they guided and sustained them. May it be so for us too.
Seeking a positive approach to the inevitable, Francisco has asked that the difficulties imposed by the pandemic «Help us a little to purify our way of living Christmas. Make it more religious, more authentic, more true.
In a catechesis of a very spiritual tone, the Holy Father invited Christians to «dedicate more time to intercessory prayerLet us pray more intensely asking for one another, particularly for those who suffer the most ».
The Pope turns 84 on Thursday, December 17, enjoying good health for his age and good spirits, despite the difficulties, in the most difficult period of his pontificate.
His program for the next few days includes a Christmas greeting to the Curia and Vatican employees on Monday. On December 24, he will celebrate the Mass of the Rooster at seven thirty in the afternoon so that the participants – whose number will be limited, as usual, to only fifty – can be back home in time before curfew.
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