Prisoner in St Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis celebrated the passion of Christ – 19/04/2019

The Papa Francisco prayed in intense prayer, prostrate on the earth during the celebration of Good Friday of the Pbadion of Christ in the basilica of San Pedro, dressed in red faces and his head resting on a cushion. Thus began the ceremony, which lasted an hour and forty-five minutes. All the faithful and priests who filled the central nave of the basilica accompanied the pontiff on their knees.

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Francisco started this way the first rite of the day of mourning of the 1,300 million baptized church, which ends with the Via Crucis del Coliseo. In the whole world, there is no mbad for mourning. The Eucharist is a sacrament and the sacraments are born from the resurrection of Christ and Good Friday recalls his death on the cross, having been captured in Jerusalem after the Last Supper.

In the liturgy of the word, the preacher of the Pontifical House, Fr. Raniero Cantalamesa, Franciscan Capuchin, declared that Jesus of Nazareth "is a mysterious man of pain, despised and rejected by men".

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"Today, we want to consider the Crucifix as the prototype and the representative of all the rejected, the disinherited, those who have been rejected from the earth, those in front of which the face is turned to another part not to see, "added Father Cantalamessa.

The preacher, whom the pope listened to attentively, said that "on the cross, Jesus became the emblem of humankind humiliated and offended. He comes from within to cry out: Rejected, denied, outcasts of all the earth: the greatest man in history has been one of you! The pontifical preacher asked religions not to remain indifferent to poverty.

The Argentine pope sat on a throne in front of the dark sculpture of St. Peter and remained silent, without uttering a homily.

Cantalamessa said that "the Catholic Church has received the mandate of its founder to put on the side of the poor and the weak".

He added that "few privileged people have badets that they could not consume even if they lived for centuries." And the wiped out mbades of the poor do not have a piece of bread and a sip of blood. water to give to their children.No religion can remain indifferent, for the God of all religions is not indifferent to all this. "

After the universal prayer, the second part of the ceremony was dedicated to the cult of the cross, carried in procession. The crucifix was first embraced by the pope, then by religious and laity.

The rites culminated with communion. The pope and all the people present in the basilica went to the Coliseum, where the traditional Via Crucis of the 14 stations of Calvary takes place.

Vatican correspondent