Cardinal Parolin: That Pope Francis can return soon among us

The Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, celebrated a Mass for the health of Pope Francis before the diplomatic corps accredited before the Holy See in which he requested that “return soon among us.”

“We met in prayer for the health of Pope Francis, so he can recover and return soon among us,” said the Purpurado Italiano as soon as the homily of the Mass he celebrated in the Pauline chapel of the apostolic palace of the Vatican.

“And what mainly consists of this prayer?” He asked below. “It’s not so much about making a request, because God knows what we need. We should not worry about presenting our needs and demands, but rather to listen first and for the Lord, “he replied.

Thus he assured that the best way to present our prayers to God is “to offer our heart, open and attentive to his words.” He added: “This is the key that opens the heart of the Lord: the cordial listening of his word.”

Cardinal Parolin, who has visited the Holy Father three times at the Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital, where he has been admitted since February 14 by bilateral pneumonia, also recalled the twelfth anniversary of his pontificate, which took place on Thursday, March 13.

“Our prayer becomes even more intense and more alive,” said Cardinal Parolin in this regard.

While there was no special celebration, the health team that attends to the Gemelli wanted to surprise Pope Francis with a cake with twelve candles to celebrate the anniversary “after the 12th anniversary of his choice, our prayer becomes even more intense and more alive,” he said.

Cardinal Parolin reflected in the homily about the wars that explode in the world, “that stain our planet with blood and that we try to avoid in the first place with our diplomacy” and then try to “solve” when they explode.

“They are not born in the battlefields – today everything has become a battlefield, even cities – but are born in the human heart of man, they are born from the feelings of hatred, of hostility that we lead to others,” said the purple, maximum representative of Vatican diplomacy.

Cardinal Parolin warned before the ambassadors of the 183 countries with which the Holy See maintains diplomatic relations that the “hand is armed with the heart and hand is also armed with the mouth.”

“To seek peace, you have to disarm the tongue first of all, not use an aggressive, offensive language (…) To seek peace, you have to disarm the tongue first of all, not use an aggressive language, offensive towards others. Because that’s where war begins, when we pronounce words of contempt, aversion, hate towards others, “he explained.

On the other hand, he called Catholics to reconcile with the people with whom they are enmity before going to Mass because but “we are committing a unfortunately hypocritical act.”

In this way, he called “to go from the logic of the confrontation to that of benevolence, starting precisely with those we consider our enemy.” “This must happen soon, today and not tomorrow,” he concluded.