This is the text of a sermon at the funeral Pope Francis, Written by Dean Cardinal from the College of Cardenalisio, Giovanni Battista rE, responsible for the execution of the funeral.
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In this majestic Plaza -San -Pedro, in which Pope Francis celebrated the Eucharist so many times and chaired the great meetings during these 12 years, we gathered in the prayer around his death remains with a sad heart, but supported by certain believers who assure us that human existence does not end in farewell, but in the house of his father, in life, that he does not know happiness.
On behalf of the college, I am cordially grateful to everyone for their presence. With a great intensity of feeling, I direct respectful greeting and deep gratitude to the heads of state, government leaders and official delegations coming from numerous countries to express the affection, veneration and respect for the pope who left us.
The mass manifestation of attachment and participation that we saw these days, after its passage from this earth to eternity, shows us how many reason and hearts have affected the intensive pontificate of Pope Francis.
His last image, which will remain in our eyes and in our hearts, is last Sunday, Easter solemnity, when Pope Francis, despite serious health problems, wanted to give us a blessing from the balcony of Basilica San Pedro, and then went to this place to greet from Papamovil, finding that the Great Crowd gathering for the pastry.
With our prayer, we want to trust the soul of the beloved pontiff to God, so that eternal happiness in the bright and glorious horizon of his great love is granted.
We illuminate and direct the page of the Gospel on which he resonated the same voice of Christ, who interrogated the first of the apostles: “Peter, do you love me more than this?” And Peter’s answer was immediate and sincere: “Lord, you know everything; You know, I love you. ” And Jesus entrusted him with a great mission: “My sheep was chopped” (cf. Jn 21,16-17). This will be a constant task of Peter and His successors, love service in the image of Christ, the Lord and the Master, who “did not serve, but to serve and give his life in salvation for the crowd” (MC10,45).
Despite his fragility and last suffering, Pope Francis decided to go this way of delivery until the last day of his earthly life. He followed the traces of his Lord, a good shepherd who loved his sheep until they gave his life. And he did it with force and serenity, close to his herd, the Church of God, recalling the phrase of Jesus, mentioned by the apostle Paul: “Happiness is more than getting to get”
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The decision to call Francisco immediately seemed to be programmatic and style with which he wanted to project his pontificate, trying to inspire himself in the spirit of San Francisco -e -Asis.
He retained his temperament and form of shepherd and immediately gave an imprint of his strong personality in the government of the church, establishing direct contact with people and peoples, trying to be close to everyone, with special attention to people in difficulty, surrendering without a measure, especially the last of the land, marginalized. It was a dad among people with an open heart in relation to everything. In addition, he was an attentive dad for the new, which arose in society and the fact that the Holy Spirit lifted in the church.
With the help of a vocabulary, which was characteristic, and his language, rich images and metaphors, he always sought to highlight the wisdom of the Gospel of the problems of our time, offering a response to the light of faith and encouraging to live as Christians, the challenges and contradictions of these years of change, which he used to qualify “time to change”.
He had a great spontaneity and informal way to go to everyone, even to people, far from the Church.
Full of human warmth and deeply sensitive to current dramas, Pope Francis really shared the problems, suffering and hopes of our time of globalization, trying to console and encourage a message that can immediately reach the heart of people.
His hospitable and listening to charisma, along with the method of action of today’s sensitivity, touched the hearts, trying to awaken moral and spiritual powers.
The Gospelization Primate was the leadership of its pontificate, spreading with the obvious missionary imprints of the joy of the Gospel, which became the name of its first apostolic exhortation of the Evangeli Gaudium. The joy that fills the heart of all those who trust God with trust and hope.
The conducting the thread of his mission was also the belief that the church is a house for everyone; The house is always open door. He resorted several times to the image of the Church as a “hospital of agitation” after a battle with many wounded; a specific and impatient church that takes care of the problems of people and great evil, which break the modern world; The church, capable of bending to each person, outside the boundaries of all religion or condition, healing its wounds.
Countless are their gestures and calls in favor of refugees and movements. His perseverance in action in favor of the poor was also constant.
It is noteworthy that the first trip of Pope Francis was to Lampedus, an island symbol of emigration drama with thousands of people who drowned at sea. In the same line there was also a trip to Lesbos, along with the ecumenical Patriarch and Archbishop of Athens, as well as the celebration of the Mass on the border between Mexico and the United States, on the occasion of a trip to Mexico.
Of its 47 exhaustive apostolic trips, Iraq will be especially in history in 2021, performed when challenging the entire risk. This difficult Apostolic visit was a balm over the open wounds of the Iraqi population, which was so much affected by IS inhuman work. It was also an important trip for inter -religious dialogue, another corresponding measurement of his pastoral work. With the Apostolic visit of 2024, four countries in Asia-Oceania have reached the “most peripheral periphery of the world.”
Pope Francis always invested in the center of the Gospel of mercy, constantly emphasizing that God does not get tired of us: He always forgives, regardless of the situation of those who apologize and return to a good path.
An extraordinary anniversary of mercy wanted, emphasizing that mercy is “this is the heart of the gospel.” Misericordia and the joy of the gospel are two key concepts of Pope Francis.
Unlike what he defined as a “discharge culture”, he spoke about the culture of the meeting and solidarity. The theme of the fraternity crossed its entire pontificate with bright tones. In Encyclic, Fatelli Tatti wanted to revive a world desire for brotherhood, because we are all the children of the same father who is in heaven. I remembered greatly that we all belong to the same human family.
In 2019, during his trip to the United Arab Emirates, Pope Francis signed a document on the “human fraternity in the world and general coexistence around the world”, recalling the general paternity of God.
The direction of men and women around the world, with an encyclical letter Laudato, if “attracted attention to duties and relationships in relation to a common house. “No one is saved alone.”
Faced with the outbreak of so many wars during these years, with the ineffective and distorted horrors of the dead and destruction, Pope Francis continuously raised his voice, begging the world and invitation to sensitivity, honest negotiations to find possible decisions, because war – he said – this is nothing more than the death of people, the destruction of houses, hospitals and schools. The war always leaves the world worse from what was in priority: this is for all painful and tragic defeat.
“Building bridges, not walls” is a call that was repeated many times, and his service to Vega, since the successor of the Apostle Peter was always connected with the service of a person in all his dimensions.
In a spiritual alliance with all Christianity, we are a lot of Christianity to pray for the Pope Francis, so that God welcomes him in unsuitable love.
Pope Francis completed his performances and meetings, saying: “Do not forget to pray for me.”
Dear Pope Francis, now we ask you to cross us, and that you will bless the Church from heaven, bless Rome, bless the whole world, as you did last Sunday from the balcony of this basil in the last embrace with all the people of God, but ideally with humanity, which is looking for truth with a sincere heart and supports the mountains of hope.