8 more moving phrases in Cardinal Re at the funeral of Pope Francis

The morning of Saturday, April 26, at an emotional funeral mass held at the Vatican, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re offered a homily full of gratitude, remembering important moments of Pontificate of Pope Francis.

Here we share some moving appointments.

1. “His last image, which will remain in our eyes and in our hearts, is that of last Sunday, solemnity of Easter, when Pope Francis, despite the serious health problems, wanted to give us the blessing from the balcony of the Basilica of San Pedro.”

2. “Despite his fragility and final suffering, Pope Francis chose to travel this delivery path until the last day of his earthly life. He followed his lord’s footsteps, the good shepherd, who loved his sheep until they gave them his own life.”

3. “He was a Pope in the midst of people with an open heart to all.”

4. “Full of human warmth and deeply sensitive to current dramas, Pope Francis really shared the concerns, sufferings and hopes of our globalization time.”

5. “His welcoming and listening charisma, together with a way of acting of today’s sensitivity, touched hearts, trying to awaken moral and spiritual forces.”

6. “He resorted several times to the image of the church as” campaign hospital “after a battle with many injured; a specific and eager church to take care of the problems of people and the great evils that tear the contemporary world.”

7. “Pope Francis always put in the center the Gospel of Mercy, constantly highlighting that God does not tire of forgiving us.”

8. “Dear Pope Francis, now we ask you to recess for us and that from heaven you bless the Church, bless Rome, bless the whole world, as you did last Sunday from the balcony of this basilica in a last hug with all the people of God.”

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