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The Pope Francisco advanced two hours midnight mass scheduled for this Friday, December 24 in the Basilica of St. Peter of the Vatican, which will be held at 7:30 p.m. (1:30 p.m. Peru time), as it did last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, this Christmas the Urbi et Orbi blessing will impart the blessing on the balcony of the Central Lodge, with no capacity limit in St. Peter’s Square, despite the fact that Italy has imposed more restrictions on those not vaccinated against covid-19 to curb the impact of the omicron variant.

The Pope Francisco He said this Friday in an interview published by several Italian media that this Christmas he will think of the poor, the forgotten, abused and exploited children and those who are sick and will spend these holidays in hospitals and remembered moments of his childhood in these dates like his grandmother cooking “cappelletti” (stuffed pasta).

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“Sometimes we would go to an aunt’s house at night, because in Buenos Aires and in our family there was no custom at that time to celebrate Christmas Eve like today. It was celebrated on the 25th, always with the grandparents. I remember once a curious thing: we arrived and my grandmother was still making cappelletti, she was making them by hand. I had made 400! We were amazed! Our whole family was there: uncles and cousins ​​also came “, he remembered Francisco in an interview published by “La Repubblica” and “La Stampa”.

On who he will think of these days, the pope did not hesitate: “In the poor, always. Like Jesus, who was born poor: that day Mary was a woman on the street, because she did not have a suitable place to give birth. And then I think of all the forgotten, the abandoned, the last, and in particular the abused and enslaved children. It makes me cry and angry hearing the stories of children and vulnerable adults being exploited. And then, I think of the sick children who will spend Christmas in the hospital, there are no words, we can only cling to faith, to God, and ask him: Why?

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The Papa told parents who have children outside of hospitals that “Don’t forget how lucky you are”. “Hug them tightly and spend more time” and showed his admiration and gratitude for the doctors and health personnel who every day try to “alleviate the suffering of these little ones.”

Jorge Bergoglio also assured that he loves Christmas carols because “they are full of poetry.”

When he just celebrated his 85th birthday, Francisco remembered how he celebrated his birthdays. “We were five brothers in the house. Besides me there were Marta Regina, Alberto Horacio, Oscar Adrián and María Elena. Birthday was always a celebration for the whole family. Grandparents and uncles came … My mother made very thick chocolate to drink ”, explained.

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He said that during his childhood he played soccer in a square near his house and “There was not always someone who brought the leather ball, but rather it was played with a rag ball. In Argentina, the rag has become a cultural symbol of that time, to the point that a popular poet wrote a poem called ‘ball of rags’ “ and that he also played basketball.

He confessed that as he was not very good they put him as a goalkeeper and that “being a goalkeeper was a great school of life ” because “the goalkeeper must be prepared to respond to the dangers that can come from all sides.”

Explained that when I was a child “we did not have television at home” Y “Several times after dinner, Dad would read volumes aloud to us” and that the first he read as a young man were “Don Segundo Sombra” by Ricardo Güiraldes and then the novels by Jorge Luis Borges and Fëdor Dostoevskij, and the poems by Friedrich Hölderlin and in the “Los Verdes” by Archibald Joseph Cronin.

On what books would he recommend to children, he stated that “More than a book, I would recommend reading. Because there is a danger that television will fill you with messages that later do not remain, while reading is something else, it is a dialogue with the book itself, it is a moment of intimacy that neither TV nor tablet can give ”.

He confessed that he thinks a lot about his grandparents, but without “melancholy” and that he misses his three brothers who have passed away, but that he remembers them and all his friends with serenity, because he imagines them “in peace”.

Regarding his health, he assures that is fine after colon surgery in July and that in 2022 he will make other international trips and that nothing has changed in his daily routine. “I always get up at 4 in the morning and immediately start praying. And then with the various commitments and appointments. I just allow myself a little nap after lunch, ”he explained.

With information from EFE

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