The Way of the Cross in Rome in the Colosseum. The considerations of Pope Francis were read

In the Roman Colosseum, the Way of the Cross took place, and thousands of people gathered around the ancient amphitheater. The absent Pope Francis wrote the considerations read at the next stations. The Holy Father undergoes convalescence.

The Way of the Cross was presided over as the Pope's delegate, the vicar of Rome, Cardinal Baldassare Reina.

This is the second in a row the Way of the Cross in Rome without Francis. Last year his absence Vatican He explained that he must protect health against other Holy Week events. Now, the Pope regains strength after more than 5 weeks of hospital stay due to severe pneumonia.

The cross at 14 Via Crucis stations carried Cardinal Reina, youth, families, representatives of Caritas, religious, teachers, people with disabilities, volunteers of the Holy Year, migrants, health care employees.

Considerations of Pope Francis

In prepared considerations Pope Francis He wrote that the current world is “broken” and expressed pain due to the destruction of brotherhood. He objected to economics that “kills”.

He noted in the prayer: “When the judged person stands in front of me, Jesus, open my heart. When my certainties are prejudices, Jesus, open my heart.” Francis noticed that people avoid responsibility, and “egoism of pregnancy more than a cross.” “More indifference than sharing,” he noted.

“Babel tower builders tell us that you can't be wrong and whoever falls is lost” – he wrote then. According to the pope, it is “hell construction site”. He opposed him with “God's economy”, which “does not kill, do not reject, does not crush; she is humble, faithful to the earth.”

He demanded “those who got stuck at the borders and feel that this is the end of their path.” Franciszek wrote: “We have built the world of calculation and algorithms, cool logic and ruthless interests.”

“Turning to you, which you fall and get up, is a change in the course and a change of step. This is a conversion that restores joy and brings us home” – he emphasized. He added: “Our wounded coexistence in this broken world, needs honest tears, not tears forced by circumstances.” Otherwise, “he warned,” we don't create anything, and then everything is collapsing. ” “However, faith transfers mountains,” he noted.

The Colosseum sounded: “We are clay in your hands, when things seem impossible to change, when there is no end of conflicts, when technology deludes us with omnipotent.” The considerations also included words of prayer: “You filled the story of the Church with holy women. Jesus, give us a motherly heart. You rejected arrogance and domination. Jesus, give us a mother's heart.” “If the Church appears to you today like a torn robe, teach us back to weave our brotherhood, built on your gift”, “Give the Church to her unity and room” – added Franciszek.

At the “Jesus nailed to the cross” station, the words were read: “Your cross is struggling with walls, discontinued debts, cancels judgments, establishes reconciliation.” The Pope also emphasized: “teach us to love when we are immobilized by regulations or unfair decisions”, “when we are fought by those who do not want truth and justice” – the whole world said, “is looking for a new beginning.”

As he explained, Jesus is “among those who have not reconciled with the thought that injustice is inevitable.” “You, Jesus, break the chain of what is inevitable. You break the automatisms that destroy a common house and brotherhood,” he added. Francis also made a prayer: “Let your peace for earth, air and water prevail, for the righteous and unjust, for those who are unnoticed and deprived of the voice who have no power or money.” With the words of Saint Francis of Assisi, the Pope called: “Let us ask for the gift of conversion of the heart.”