Pope
Francis: Jubilee of Mercy a time to care for sick and dying
(Vatican
Radio) Pope Francis has said the Jubilee of Mercy will be a “good opportunity
for increasing the collaboration between pastors and the laity in the mission
of affectionately and tenderly caring for the sick and dying.”
His
words were conveyed in a message sent to Manuel Martin Sjöberg, President of
the Federación de Servicios de sacerdotales Urgencia y Nocturno (Federation of
Priestly Emergency Services).
The
society was founded in 1952 in Cordoba, Argentina, to help those in need
receive the sacraments, especially when it is difficult to find a priest.
Pope
Francis also quoted from Misericordiae Vultus, the Bull of Indiction
announcing the Year of Mercy, which urges people to be close to those who are
suffering “so they can feel the warmth of our presence, our friendship and our
fraternity.”
Pope
Francis thanked the volunteers of the association for their sixty years of
performing “works of Christian mercy”, noting “we will be judged” on the
corporal and spiritual works of mercy, because in “each of these ‘smallest
ones’, Christ himself is present.”
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