Pope Francis in Cairo: impromptu exchange with young
people
(Vatican Radio) Friday evening saw an unscripted moment
between Pope Francis and a group of some three hundred young people gathered in
the small square before the entrance to the Apostolic Nunciature in Cairo,
where the Holy Father stayed the night between Friday and Saturday.
After supper, the Holy Father went to greet the young people
gathered the square, saying, “Good evening to you all, I'm glad to find you!”
“I know you have come on pilgrimage,” he continued, “is it
true? If it is true, it is because you are brave!”
He went on to say, “[Saturday], we will have the Mass in the
stadium, all together, and we will pray together and sing together and
celebrate together! Before retiring [for the night], I would like to pray with
you.”
Then Pope Francis prayed the Our Father with the young
people, who recited the prayer in Arabic. “[N]ow,” he said, “I would like to
give you the blessing, but before I do, each of you should think about the
people about whom you care the most; think also of the people for whom you do
not care, and in silence each of you pray for these people: for those whom you
love and those you don’t love,” Pope Francis instructed.
Then he gave the Apostolic Blessing to the young people and
all the people they carried in that moment in their hearts.
Pope Francis concluded the encounter with the words, “Long
live Egypt!”
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