Pope Leone XIV This morning he met the purple: “You, dear cardinals, are the closest collaborators of the Pope, and this is of great comfort in accepting a yoke clearly far superior to my strength, as to those of anyone”. Leone XIV said so at the beginning of his meeting today with the cardinals. “Your presence reminds me that the Lord, who has entrusted me to me this mission, does not leave me only in bringing its responsibility – he added – I know first of all that I can always count, always on his help, the help of the Lord, and, for his grace and providence, on your closeness and of many brothers and sisters who believing in God all over the world, love the Church and support with the prayer and with good works.”
“The Pope, starting with St. Peter and up to me, his unworthy successor, is a humble servant of God and the brothers, for this other than this. The examples of many of my predecessors well showed him, lastly that of Pope Francis himself, with his style of full dedication in the service and sober essentiality in life, of abandonment in God in the time of the mission and serene trust in the moment of the return to the home of the father”. So Leone XIV in his meeting today with the cardinals. “We collect this precious legacy and resume the path, animated by the same hope that comes from faith,” added Pope Prevost.
Meanwhile, the first background on the Conclave appear. “The meeting this morning went very well. We also talked about the need to make the church more collegiate. It is an excellent pope and has had much more than 100 votes”. The cardinal of the Madagascar Désiré Tsarahazana, a metropolitan archbishop of Toamasina, says it, at the exit from the first meeting of the new Pope with the cardinals agreed in Rome for the conclave.
The “fans’ of the Vicenza in my favor (humanly understandable, I think)”, “in the end it must be overcome according to a different logic, of faith and the church”. Card. Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, in the message that accompanies the letter to the Giornale di Vicenza after the election of Pope Leo XIV, in fact his first public declaration after the conclave. “We know that he is very tied to this territory – writes the Journal Berico – and we have not hidden that all the Vicenza have ‘cheered’ for his election”.
Tomorrow the first queen Coeli from the central loggia of San Pietro is scheduled. Leone XIV will preside over the pontificate start mass on Sunday 18 May, for which up to 250 thousand faithful and leader from all over the world are expected. Yesterday Prevost celebrated the first mass in the Sistine Chapel. The pontiff has provisionally confirmed all the positions of Curia and will remain for now in his apartment at the Holy Office, pending work at the Apostolic Palace.
Ansa agency On 18 May the Pontificate Start Mass of Leone XIV, 250 thousand people expected – news – Ansa.it The Pope provisionally confirms all Curia’s positions. First Mass of the Pope in Sistine. “In many contexts, faith is considered absurd. We prefer technology, money, success, power, pleasure” (ANSA) Parolin, ‘For Leo XIV a very long applause of the cardinals’
“I think I do not reveal any secret, if I write that a very long and warm applause is followed to that accepted” which made him the 267th Pope of the Catholic Church. Of him, above all I was struck by the serenity that transpired from his face in such intense moments and, in a certain sense, ‘dramatic’, because they totally change the life of a man “. Card. Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, in a letter written to the Giornale di Vicenza “still ‘fresh’ – note – of the strong and engaging experience of the Conclave”. Parolin expresses the “joy that in such a short time the universal church has found its shepherd, the successor of Peter, the bishop of Rome, after the illness and death of Pope Francis, who had the patience to keep me as his secretary of state for almost 12 years”. “The new Pope – he continues – has well aware of the problems of the world today, as he has shown since his first words on the loggia of San Pietro, immediately referring to the ‘unarmed and disarming’ peace”. The serenity of the new pontiff “I have always experienced it in Card. Prevost – recalls Parolin – that I had the opportunity to know at the beginning of my service as a secretary of state for a thorny question that concerned the church in Peru, where he was bishop of the diocese of Chiclayo. I then had the opportunity to collaborate directly with him in these last few years, after Pope Francis called him to Rome Bishops I was able to experiment in him knowledge of situations and people, calmness in argumentation, balance in the proposal of solutions, respect, attention and love for everyone. Ministry that the Lord entrusted him to the good of the Church and the whole of humanity. We are close to him with our affection, our obedience and our prayer “, he concludes.
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