Francis asked follow his example and recalled that his mission is testimony to the closeness of God to the poorest
ROME In what was a highlight of the Jubilee of Mercy moment, Francisco today proclaimed holy Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) , one of the most recognized Christian figures of the last century, authentic icon of charity and example of that Church in output to the peripheries to calling the Pope.
“Your mission in the outskirts of cities and existential peripheries remains today as an eloquent testimony of God’s closeness to the poorest of the poor, “said the pontiff, who before more than 100,000 people recalled that Mother Teresa of Calcutta, founder of the Congregation of the Missionaries of Charity, “made her feel her voice to the powerful of the earth, to recognize their guilt to crimes of poverty created by themselves.” “Mercy has it been for her the” salt “flavor that gave each of his works, and” light “that lit the darkness of those who had not even la’grimas to mourn their poverty and suffering,” he said. Francisco, who always admired the tiny and strong mother Teresa, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, also evoked his crusade against abortion: “It has been committed to the defense of life proclaiming incessantly that” born is not the weakest, the smallest, the poorest ‘. “
in a solemn Mass concelebrated by 2000 priests, 70 cardinals and 400 bishops and archbishops from around the world, the former archbishop of Buenos Aires also called on the more than 100,000 people present in St. Peter’s Square, including thousands of volunteers who celebrated their jubilee, to follow suit. “Today give this emblematic figure of consecrated women and everyone of volunteering: that she be your model of holiness” he said. “That this tireless worker of mercy help us to understand more and more that our sole criterion for action is free love, free of all ideology and all ties and poured on all without distinction of language, culture, race or religion” he urged.
While the image of Mother Teresa, dressed in her traditional white sari with a blue border (the colors of the Virgin Mary) dominated the atmosphere from a tapestry placed on the front the Basilica of San Pedro, among the crowd in the square called attention to the flags of India, where Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu lived and died to heal the poorest of the poor, and Albania, their homeland. It also highlighted the presence in the front row of a group of 1,500 poor who live in houses that the Missionaries of Charity have in Italy. They all enjoyed, after Mass, a system based on Neapolitan pizza that offered the Pope in the atrium of the Paul VI hall lunch, through its limosnero, Polish Archbishop Konrad Krajewski.
In a beautiful ceremony with choirs, but reinforced, marked by massive security measures, also they attended the solemn at least 15 heads of state and government, including the Prime Minister of India and Queen Sofia of Spain ceremony. Due to the prevailing heat, many are protected from the sun under umbrellas.
The crowd erupted in applause at 10.41, when the Pope read, in Latin, the formula of canonization of the new saint. He did so after the choir of the Sistine Chapel intoned litanías of saints, after Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, read a brief biography of the saint of the past.
in his sermon, the Pope reiterated that “there is no alternative to charity: those who are at the service of the brothers, whether they know it, they are those who love God”. “Wherever he has an outstretched hand asking for help to stand, there must be our presence and the presence of the Church that sustains and gives hope,” he said. To exalt the figure of Mother Teresa, “who will have difficulty calling holy and continue to call Mother Teresa,” he admitted, the Pope recalled that religious loved to say, “Maybe I do not speak your language, but I can smile.” “Let’s get to the heart will smile and entreguémosla to everyone we meet on our way, especially those who suffer. We will open horizons and joy and hope to all the dispirited and in need of understanding and tenderness humanity,” he urged. “Mother Teresa, throughout its existence, has been a generous dispenser of divine mercy, making himself available to everyone through the reception and the defense of human life, both the unborn as abandoned and discarded. it has bent over the feeble people, who die abandoned on the edge of the streets, recognizing the dignity that God had given them, “he also said.
Among the crowd, there were also groups of young people who were adopted by the congregation of Mother Teresa, which now has 6,000 members and is present in 139 countries, including Argentina. “Mother Teresa is our guardian angel, is my guardian angel, is a constant presence in our hearts and for me to be at this ceremony is one of the most beautiful things in my life,” he said to the Rajid NATION, young native of India, 26, is now botanist and lives in Italy.
“She was a pope before the pope Francisco Francisco” said Cardinal Oswald Gracias, archbishop of Mumbai, the capital cultural and economic life of India, who knew for many years, at a conference on the new saint which took place last Friday at the Pontifical Urban University. The Thanks cardinal, who is a member of the group of consultants cardinals Pope and was in the Mass of canonization, said that religious, considered holy in life, “was a completely humble person, without airs, he was not afraid to say what he felt “. Recalled, in this regard, the strong condemnation of abortion he made during his speech on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. He stressed, moreover, that in India Mother Teresa “is not only of Catholics also belongs to Hindus, Muslims, Jews and many other “.
Sister Mary Prema, the second successor of Mother Teresa as head of the Missionaries of Charity, born in Germany and also present at the ceremony, in turn he told a story of the most eloquent. When religious launched a headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity in the Bronx neighborhood of New York, in 1971, someone asked him why he did it. And she said, “if there are poor people on the moon, we also go there”
No comments:
Post a Comment