Vatican City:
Pope Francis, who is answering well to treatment for pneumonia, thanked his doctors and healthcare workers on Sunday as he missed the fourth direct angelus prayer in the person.
From 14 February, 88 -year -old at Jamelli Hospital in Rome, released a written angelus, in which he thanked those who thank the volunteers for helping others in their needs, praising their “closeness and tenderness”.
“I also experience the tenderness of service and tenderness of care, especially from doctors and healthcare workers, whom I thank under my heart,” he said.
In the text published by the Vatican, he said, “We need it, the miracle of tenderness’ who is in adversity, brings little light on the night of pain.”
The world’s 1.4 billion Catholic leader has spent the first time in Jameli for colon surgery in 2021 and a hernia operation in 2023.
It has been more severe than hospitalized, however, Francis has been suffering from several respiratory crises, which fears that the road will be longer for recovery, or may force the elderly Pontiff to resign.
On Saturday, the Vatican stated that the Pope finally appeared to be well responding to treatment and saw “a gradual, minor improvement”, marked several days without crisis.
Although there is no fever in the pope, his doctor wants to see more positive results “in the coming days”, an evening medical bulletin said.
The next bulletin is expected to be on Monday afternoon.
‘So much given’
Francis is in turn -resting, pray and work bits when he feels it.
On Sunday morning, he received the Vatican State Secretary, an Archbishop of Venezuela, a senior Vatican officer, the Italian Cardinal Piyetro Parolin, the State Secretary of the Vatican, and Edgar Pena Para.
Those who gathered at St. Peter Square on Sunday, where Francis would usually stand at a Vatican window to read the angelus in the bottom crowd, said that his appearance is very much remembered.
“He is a wonderful person who has given a lot and I hope he may return as soon as possible”, Diana Desideero said, who is a volunteer with the Civil Security Agency in Pescara.
He and fellow volunteers are praying that Francis “will return to the window again and bring peace and peace to all, because we need it”, he told AFP.
The Pope ended the angelus with its traditional call for peace in conflicts, “especially in Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Myanmar, Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo”.
He said that he learned “with concern to resume violence in some areas of Syria: I hope they definitely struggle, with full respect for all ethnic and religious components of society”.
Catholic is also gathering at Jameli Hospital to pray for Francis or leave flowers, candles and cards.
The 74 -year -old Giuseppe Antonio Parazo was in the hospital for the second consecutive Sunday, cleverly dressed in a suit and tied in the hope that the Pontiff could appear on the window.
An indication he urged Argentina Pontiff, seeing the windows of the Pope’s rooms – a notorious headstrong patient – “doctors and nurses ask what you do to do”.
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