Holy See Spokesperson Bruni introduced the 34th international visit of Pope Francis at the press conference: The Pope will make a pilgrimage in Budapest to pay homage to the Eucharist; please avoid the deepest interpretation of spiritual meaning and other interpretations Confused. In Slovakia, the pope will embrace the people injured by the dictatorship and “look to the future.” In terms of health, the Pope will “be as cautious as ever.”
(Vatican News Network)Pope Francis will start his 34th international visit from September 12th to 15th, setting a milestone in visiting 54 countries around the world. This time the pope is eager to “make a pilgrimage in the heart of Europe and deal with issues that affect the entire continent of Europe.” The Pope particularly hopes that this time will be a “spiritual journey”, starting with the adoration of the Eucharist and ending with a call to the Virgin of Suffering. For the past century, Our Lady of Pain has never stopped protecting the Slavic lands scarred by the dictatorship. The Vatican spokesperson outlined the four-day itinerary of Pope Francis’s visit with these short sentences.
The Pope’s visit contains strong spiritual connotations. Therefore, when Bruni answered reporters’ questions in the Vatican News Room, he asked everyone to “avoid confuse the interpretation with the deepest spiritual meaning with other interpretations.” In this press conference introducing the Pope’s travels, reporters’ questions focused on the Pope’s meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán before Mass on this Sunday morning. Bruni said that this was a “meeting with the country’s highest authorities, and the high-level people obviously covered Orban.” Afterwards, the prime minister’s family will also attend masses presided over by the pope. “This is a pilgrimage to honor the Most Holy Eucharist.” The Vatican spokesperson emphasized that the origin of this trip was the pope’s desire to get close to hundreds of men and women who had attended the Eucharist since last Sunday.
After visiting Hungary, the Pope will go to Slovakia. As early as March of this year, on his way back to Rome from Iraq on a special plane, the pope explained his mental journey in choosing a place to visit. The Pope stated at the time that one of his collaborators suggested that it is possible to travel from Budapest to Bratislava, which is only a “two-hour drive” away. The possibility of this short visit later turned into a 72-hour itinerary, covering several major cities in central and eastern Europe. Many of these cities have welcomed Pope John Paul II. The Polish pope visited those places on three trips in 1990, 1995 and 2003.
Pope Wojtyla once encouraged local churches and Christian groups to participate in the reconstruction of society, gradually stepping out of the horrors of the Nazis and the “errors and sufferings” of the communist regime, and standing up again. Next week, Pope Francis will of course see a different scene, but the “people and land” are still the same, and many people are still imprinted with the scars left by the darkest years. “The Pope visits the people who are suffering under a regime that oppresses freedom of belief and religion.” Some of their bishops, priests, nuns and lay believers went to jail, tortured, and even martyred; some priests worked in factories and were ordained in factories. However, these “Christians resist stubbornly and are proud of it. Sometimes they shed blood in the process of resisting, encountering accidents and being persecuted.”
Against the background of these martyrdom stories, the Pope is also eager to look to the future and open up the vision of “evangelization and mission.” To this end, the pope hopes to be able to get close to young people, as well as representatives of other denominations and other religions of the Christian faith. In this tight schedule, the pope will deliver seven speeches, three sermons, a greeting and preside over a prayer of the Three Bells in Italian.
In that land, people of different religious sects have all experienced the same suffering and martyrdom. For this reason, “The Grand Duke Gathering is very important.” The Pope will hold two ecumenical meetings on the first day of his visit and on September 12: in the morning he will meet with the delegation of the Hungarian Christian Association at the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, and in the afternoon will be the ecumenical meeting at the Holy See Embassy in Slovakia.
The gathering of the pope and the Jewish community is equally important. The Jews spent a long and painful period of time in exile under the Nazi regime: before the outbreak of the war, the number of Jewish groups exceeded 130,000, and then it was reduced to 20,000. Among them, before 1940, there were 15,000 Jews in Bratislava alone; after that, only 3,500 people survived, and after World War II, they not only had their architectural heritage destroyed, but also had to face indifference and indifference. Hostile treatment. It was not until the end of the communist regime in 1989 that the political atmosphere changed and the Jewish community was able to regain a new life. On September 13 this year, the Pope will meet with representatives of a lively Jewish community who actively promote religious, cultural and educational activities.
In addition to the activities and themes of this trip, Bruni also answered other questions from reporters and talked about health measures that may be taken during this trip. Although the pope underwent an operation on July 4 this year, “no special measures will be taken on this trip, but as always, we will be cautious and cautious.” “According to the usual practice, there will be a doctor and several nurses on the plane.” In addition, the Pope’s entourage on this special plane will also include senior officials from the Holy See State Council: “Holy Secretary of State Cardinal Parolin, Deputy Secretary of State Archbishop Pena, and Secretary-General of the Ministry of Relations with the various countries, Archbishop Gallagher .Public opportunities present were Cardinal Sandri, Minister of the Holy See’s Eastern Church Department, and Cardinal Ayuso, Chairman of the Holy See Committee for Religious Communication. According to tradition, there will also be a Vatican employee among the entourage, this time an employee of the Vatican City State Government. “.
As for the COVID-19 prevention measures during the Pope’s visit, especially the abolition of the requirement that participants in the Pope’s liturgy must present a green pass, Bruni clarified: “These are the decisions of the local authorities. I can imagine that they have taken all necessary According to informal data, the number of confirmed cases of new crown in Slovakia in a single day is about 200.
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