Pope thanks detainees, prison
workers for Good Friday meditation
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| Pope Francis meditates during last year's Via Crucis (Vatican Media) |
On Friday, Pope Francis publicly expressed his gratitude to
all those at the Due Palazzi prison in Padua who contributed to the meditations
for the Way of the Cross on Good Friday
By Christopher Wells
In a message broadcast on Italian radio station RTL, Pope
Francis thanked his “friends” at the Due Palazzi parish who
had prepared the meditations for the Via Crucis on Good
Friday.
The parish is connected the Due Palazzi correctional
facility in Padua, in northern Italy, and the meditations were composed by
prisoners, victims, guards, families, judges and others associated with the
prison.
It is a great consolation he said, “to read a story in which
there are stories not only of prisoners, but of all those who are passionate
about the world of prison”.
Sharing their stories
Addressing them as his friends, Pope Francis thanked the
members of the parish for sharing their stories. He reminded them, “God tells
of Himself and speaks to us within a story, and invites us to listen
attentively and mercifully”.
The people of Due Palazzi, the Pope said, are
not lost in a “sea of anonymity”, but instead represent all those people
involved in the world of corrections. “Thus,” he said, “in the Via
Crucis you will lend your story to all those throughout the world who
share the same situation”.
Pope Francis concluded his message saying he embraced all of
those at Due Palazzi. And after asking them again to keep him
in their prayers, the Holy Father signed off, saying, “I carry you always in my
heart. Thank you.”
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