Pope Francis: Thank you for accompanying me with your prayers

On the morning of Monday, March 13, on the tenth anniversary of his election, Pope Francis celebrated Mass together with several curial cardinals in the chapel of St. Martha's House. In a message posted on his Twitter account, @Pontifex asked us to continue to pray for him. Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi expressed the best wishes of the Italian bishops to the Holy Father.

"Good evening!" greeting, with which Pope Francis introduced himself to the Church and the world ten years ago, "was the beginning of a dialogue" and in the last decade "helped us understand how attractive and convincing the Gospel is, which is able to respond to the many questions of history and to listen to those questions, which arise among the sufferings of human existence". Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, Archbishop of Bologna, President of the Italian Bishops' Conference, greeted the Pope in a video message on behalf of the Italian Archbishops on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the election of the Holy Father. Many people from all over the world greeted the Pope, who celebrated Mass in the chapel of St. Martha's House with the cardinals present in Rome on Monday morning, the Holy See press center reported. In a post from his @Pontifex Twitter account, Pope Francis thanked the prayers received:

Since the greeting given on the evening of March 13, 2013, the Pope's words and gestures "continue to touch the heart, surprise and speak to everyone," Cardinal Zuppi said in his message. – Pope Francis “taught us to get out, stay on the streets and, above all, go to the peripheries to understand who we are.

We can only truly know ourselves if we look at it from the outside, from those first peripheries, which are the poor." "He made us meet them, see them, touch them, to make them our least brothers", because, as the Pope recalled several times:

The Italian bishops also expressed their gratitude for "the fact that the Pope accepted XVI. Benedict's legacy", and that he accompanied them from the year of faith, exhorting them to "live as Christians in the midst of the many contradictions, challenges and epidemics of this world". The commitment affirmed by the bishops is to "find the ways of peace together" because "only peace born of fraternal and selfless love can help overcome personal, social and global crises".

Source: Magyar Kurír/Vatican Radio

Photo: Vatican News