Vatican City: Pope Francis is expected to please Catholics worldwide during the Easter ceremony in the Vatican on Sunday, a few weeks later he was fighting for his life in the hospital while suffering from pneumonia.
Sick 88 -year -old Pontiff has been recovering for his health since leaving the hospital on 23 March, spent getting 38 days of treatment.
They are expected to distribute the benedication of “Urbi at Aurby” from a balcony with St. Peters Square on Sunday afternoon (1000gmt), which is the most important Christian festival.
Holi C’s press service has stated that Francis will probably be present for Easter Sunday events, but without really confirming their participation, it insisted that it depends on their health.
His voice remains weak, despite improving his breathing, who has publicly seen Francis twice a week without nasal penetration, through which he is receiving oxygen.
He can hand over the reading of his Easter text – in which he usually reflects conflicts and crises around the world – someone else.
For the first time after his election in 2013, the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics recalled most of the events of the holy week, such as the Friday station of the cross in the colossium and the Easter Vigil in the Basilica of St. Peter on Saturday, where he handed over to his duties to the cardinals.
However, he recorded a brief appearance with St. Peter on Saturday, as he greeted the visitors.
Some 300 cardinals, bishops and priests will participate in Sunday’s Easter Mass – which recall the revival of Jesus Christ – in St. Peter Square, which will be decorated with thousands of flowers.
The organizers hope that the Catholic Church has a larger crowd than normal due to a “sacred year” jubilee, which comes almost once in every quarter of a century and attracts thousands of pilgrims to the eternal city.
Christian rareness
It is also notable for the presence of American Vice President JD Vance in Rome over the weekend.
He on Saturday interacted with the Holy Secretary for relations with the State Secretary, Cardinal Pitro Parolin and Paul Richard Galagher, for relations with the states.
Francis and US President Donald Trump’s administration came exactly two months after a spat amid his anti -migrant policies.
Neither the Vatican nor the Vice President’s Office has commented on any possible meeting between Francis and Vance, but the Easter Mass can provide such an opportunity.
Italian Cardinal Giyavani Batista Ray, Dean of College of Cardinals, presided over the Easter Vigil on Saturday night at St. Peter Basilica in place of Argentina Pontif.
Francis, who has been ordered to rest for two months and to avoid public duties, has made a single official engagement in this holy week, visiting a prison in Rome.
He even recalls traditional to-fasting rituals, who want to mimic Jesus Christ’s legs to wash his disciples.
Asked a journalist when he felt about this Easter week in his current position after his visit to jail, smiling Pope said in a weak and harsh voice: “I am living the best.”
Francis, which was already weaker than previous health issues, was two times close to death during his recent illness.
This year’s Easter is unusual as it comes in the same weekend in both Catholic and Protestant branches of Christianity, which follow the Gregorian calendar and conservative branch, which uses the Julian calendar.
