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And who was expecting last Saturday for Pope Francis to arrive in Santo Stefano degli Abissini where a marriage between a Swiss guard and an employee of the Vatican Museums was taking place. The newlyweds, Luca Elia Maria Schafer and the Brazilian Leticia Vera, had sent the Pope the request to participate in their marriage, but they did not despair. Bergoglio instead, without any warning, was found in the old Vatican church that rises in the great namesake behind the Basilica of San Pietro.
Totally incredulous, the badistants begin with the father Renato dos Santos, Brazilian priest charged with celebrating the function to which one strikes a blow when, entering the vestry to prepare for the mbad, he finds the pope in the process of To wait for a smile. "Never in my life, I would have ever thought of finding the Pope in a sacristy," said in an interview to Vatican News, "The guests wondered if what ever happened? they saw before they really were Pope Francis. "" I saw in him – says Father Renato – the true priest who takes care of his own little sheep in the parish, with all his gentleness and his tenderness. "
To spread the news of the Pope's presence at the wedding, the other priests present on the various social networks In particular, Father Omar Reposo, Rector of the Sanctuary of Christ the Redeemer-Corcovado (Rio de Janeiro) , published on his Instagram account the photo of the Pope with the couple accompanied by the caption: "Look at those who came by surprise! Pope Francis always surprises!
In his homily – said Father dos Santos – Francis indicated three actions to fully live the gift of marriage: "Start, stop, resume the journey". The Pope "has the value of marriage in the soul", observed the priest, "in him there is love for this sacrament which creates a family and wants to put God in the center".
This is not the first time that Pope Francis presides at a wedding in the Vatican: remember the wedding ceremony of 20 couples in St. Peter's in September 2014 or that of a deaf couple celebrated in the chapel of Casa Santa Marta to Not to mention, on the theme of surprises, the famous "wedding in flight" of the hostess and Chilean steward
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