Vatican City, 12 March 2014 (VIS) – Tomorrow, 13 March, will
be the first anniversary of the election of Pope Francis to the See of St.
Peter. These 365 days of his papacy have been characterised as a “time of
mercy”, as described by the Pope himself. During these twelve months of intense
activity, the Pope “from the end of the earth” who asks us to pray for him, has
started out on a new way of working that, with a slow but sure pace, has drawn
renewed attention to issues not only of an ecclesiastical nature. The “priest
of the world”, as his special secretary Msgr. Alfred Xuereb calls him, “has not
wasted a minute! He works tirelessly and, when he feels the need to take a
moment's pause, he closes his eyes and does nothing: he simply sits and prays
the Rosary”.
To commemorate this first anniversary, the director of the
Holy See Press Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi, S.J., gave an interview with
Vatican Radio in which he reflects on this year and its “great impulse to a
journeying Church”.
“The most important aspect of this first year is without
doubt the great attention, the great attraction of the people – I say the
people, meaning not only practising Catholics, but everyone in this world – the
great attention for this Pope, for his message. It is something that I think
and hope is very deeply rooted in the heart of the people, who have felt
touched by a word of love, attention, mercy, closeness, proximity, in which
through the man, the Pope, the love of God arrives”.
“The Church truly seems to be a journeying people. This is
her most characteristic aspect: a sense of great dynamism. The Pope has given a
great impulse and journeys with a Church that seeks God's will, that seeks her
mission in today's world for the good of all, truly going out to the
peripheries, to the ends of the world”, he continues, adding that there are
“manifestations of attention, therefore, that come from places, from atypical
organs of the press”, that “mean that his message reaches its target”.
May God Bless Our Pope
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