Pope Francis said Sunday that he was
experiencing Lent as a period of healing in his Angelus address,
the text of which the Vatican released only in written form as
he was again unable to read it out as he recovers from bilateral
pneumonia.
The 88-year-old Argentine pontiff has started what is expected
to be two months of convalescence, having been discharged from
Rome's Gemelli hospital a week ago following a 38-day stay
there.
"Let us live this Lent as a time of healing, all the more as it
is the Jubilee," Francis said in the Angelus address.
"I too am experiencing it this way, in my soul and in my body.
"That is why I give heartfelt thanks to all those who, in the
image of the Saviour, are instruments of healing for their
neighbour with their word and their knowledge, with kindness and
with prayer.
"Frailty and illness are experiences we all have in common; all
the more, however, we are brothers in the salvation Christ has
given us".
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