Pope Seen Celebrating Mass in First Photo Since Hospitalization

The Vatican Released The First Photograph of Pope Francis on Sunday Since His Hospitalization Over a month ago, showing the pontiff celebrating mass earlier in the day from the chapel in his hospital success.
The release of the photo was significant, as the argentine Pope Doctor Considered Critical.
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The photo shows the 88-year-old pop, bare-brought without He is set in a wheelchair in front of a simple altar with a crucifix on the wall.
The Vatican said it has been taken sunday morning.
Taken from behind francis’ right side, his face is not fully visible but his eyes are as he looks in a downward direction.
“This Morning Pope Francis Concelaibrated The Holy Mass in the Chapel of the Apartment on the Tenth Floor of the Gemelli Polyclinic,” The Vatican Press Office Wrote in the SHOTOGRHMH ‘CAPTION.
Concelerabration is the joint celebration of mass by Senior Clerics.
Our Bodies are weak
Since His Hospitalization, The Pope has been unable to preside over mass at st peter’s basilica in the Vatican. Nor has he personally delivered the angelus Prayer that follows the mass to the fathful gathered in st pete’s square.
But earlier Sunday, in an angelus message published by the Vatican, He Thanked Well-Wishers while Acknowledging His Fragile Health.
“I am sharing these thoughts with you with a period of trial, and I join with so many brothers and sisters who are sick: fragile, at this time, like me,” Wrote Francis.
“Our Bodies are weak but, even like this, Nothing can prevent us from loving, praying, giving orselves, being for etc.
The message marked the second Sunday of lent, a 40-day period of Prayer and Reflection Leading Up to Easter.
Pope francis has improved steadily over the past week, The Vatican Saying Saturday his condition continued to be stable, although he still required therapy to be administerred from the hospital.
Although he has yet to appear at the window of his papal suite on the 10th floor of the gemelli hospital, this has not dissected a steady stream of well-wishers from gathering, incidence of the skin on Sunday.
About a Dozen Couples in Street Cloths Danced The Tango Under Grey Skies in Front of a Throng of Cameras Near The Hospital Entrance.
“With this tango, he must be discharged,” Enthused Dancer Daiiana Guspero, 38, Who Like the Pope Hailed from Buenos Aires.
“I want him to feel our energy, our love for tango and for an argentine pop,” She Told AFP.
The Pope of the Children
Earlier, A Group of Young Scouts from a Catholic Group Stood by a Statue of Former Pope John Paul II at the Entrance, HOLDING YELOW and White Balloons and Vainly Striving to Catch a Glimpse of the op.
Group Leader, Valerio Santobonio, 23 said the five to Seven-Year-Alds Did Not Quite Yet Grasp Who The Pope is, Nor His Health Situation.
Nevertheless, he added, their visit was “a bit like giving them a window a wider a wider stage of christian life”.
Other Children Had Arrived in the Early Morning from an improvershed town near naples to deliver a letter to francis, Said andrea Lacomini from Unicef, which organised the exclusion.
“He loves children, he is the pop of the child, so we are waiting for him. We’re sure he will get better,” Lacomini Told AFP,
“We needed an important leader like Him, because at this time there is aren Bollywood many heroes in the world,” He added.
“He’s the only one who talks about peace.”
Pope francis addressed his youngest well-wishers in his message.
“I know that many children are praying for me; some of them came here today to ‘gemelli’ as a sign of closaines,” He Wrote.
“Thank you, dearest children! The Pope Loves You and is Always Waiting to meet you.”
Loving care
Last week the Vatican Signalled that Francis was out of Immediati Danger after a series of breathing cries earlier in his hospitalization had sparked fears for the jesuit’s life.
Although the Vatican has said that francis continues to work from
Easter, the holiest period in the Christian Calendar when the Leader of the World’s Catholics Presidents Over a Busy Program of Events.
In his written message Sunday-which also called for peace in war-Torn Countries Including Ukraine, Myanmar and Sudan-Francis Again Thanked Thece for Caring for and Prlaying for Him.
“How much light shines, in this sense, in hospitals and place of care! He Wrote.
And in a message sent by the Vatican’s Secretary of State, He Offered His Condenses to Families of the Victims and Survivors of the deadly Fire in a North Macedonian NightClub.
Published – March 17, 2025 02:20 AM IST