Testimonies: This is how the second black smoke of the conclave in San Pedro was lived

About 15,000 people awaited in the Plaza de San Pedro when at 11:51 the second black smoke of the conclave occurred. Some of those present have shared their impressions with ACI Press, Ewtn Spanish agency.

Zelides Ortiz and Héctor Rivera have been married for 43 years and have 5 children. José and Sheila have lived in Texas for 25 years. The two marriages are family among them First fumata of this daysecond of the conclave.

Zelides and Héctor have a priest son, a slicing religious, who performs their pastoral work in Miami (United States) and has not been able to accompany them, but she does not hesitate to affirm that “we are here with her heart with us”, a few seconds after the black smoke, he appeared for the chimney of the Apostolic Palace.

“We know that the Holy Spirit is accompanying us and is accompanying them too,” he adds in reference to the 133 voters. “We are excited because we want to see that there is a substitute for the Pope,” Hector is right.

With a little luck, they will see a new smoking after the fourth vote of the conclave, if there was already chosen Pope, they must be back on the cruise at 7:00 pm in Rome.

Meanwhile, they will visit the Santa María la Mayor Basilica, Where Pope Francis was buried.

Fray Daniel, Franciscan: “There are cardinals who are barely known”

Fray Daniel believes that the second black smoke of the conclave is part of the “normal process” and responds to “there are cardinals who are barely known.”

The religious recommends observing the process “with eyes of faith”, because the conclave is governed “by the times of God: only he will indicate when, how and why.”

“What is our role now? To pray and ask God to send us a Supreme Pontiff according to his will,” he concludes.

“Incredible emotion” by two Paraguayan sisters before the black smoking

Celeste and Paola are two sisters from Paraguay and reside in Rome for years. After the second Black Fumata, which have continued live from the Plaza de San Pedro, they have felt an “incredible emotion”, although they already hope to meet the new Pope.

Pope Francis longs for “his way of being, his charisma, closeness” and consider that what the Church needs in a Pope is “a human person and close to people.”

Javier expects the next Pope to be “a moral reference”

Dressed in his flag of Spain, Javier is a young Sevillian who has advanced his trip to Rome planned for next week on the occasion of the jubilee of the brotherhoods to live in person the development of the conclave, sacrificing the enjoyment of the well -known Fair of Seville that is celebrated these days.

“It is very special to be here, the atmosphere,” he says, while considering that the conclave is “a moment that marks the story.”

Regarding the next pontiff, he hopes that “he is still a Pope faithful to the values ​​of the Gospel, who continues to defend immigrants, the poor, the disadvantaged, who often puts the powerful in a difficult situation.”

“That it is a moral reference for the West, both for believers and for non -believers,” he concludes.