After a visit to the University Children’s Hospital in Prokocim, the Pope returned to Krakow, where he led the Way of the Cross. – Where is God in the face of anxiety, doubters and the souls of the afflicted? There are some questions to which there are no human response – said Francis at Blonie Park.
Friday the pope began a private Mass in the chapel of the Palace of the Archbishops of Cracow.
A visit to Auschwitz
before 9.30 am visited Auschwitz, and in connection with the 75th anniversary of the martyrdom of Saint. Maximilian Kolbe. Francis alone passed the entrance gate of the camp, then climbed into the electric vehicle, and then prayed alone, in silence. – I alone go and pray that the Lord gave me the grace of tears – the Holy Father said.
At the site of the Holy Father greeted the Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, whose great-grandfather was killed in the camp.
The Holy Father also he met with 15 people from the camp survivors. Francis lit a candle at the Death Wall of Block 11, where the Germans shot the prisoners. In the cell martyrdom of St. Maximilian Kolbe Francis held a private prayer.
Lord, have mercy on your people! Lord, forgive so much cruelty! – the Holy Father wrote in the visitors’ book.
A silent prayer was held at the International Monument to the Victims of the Camp, which will be gathered about 1000 visitors. Then the Holy Father met with the 25 “Righteous Among the Nations.”
“I’d like to stop at every sick child”
About 16:30 Pope arrived in Prokocim, where he visited at the University Children’s Hospital.
– I would stay with each patient’s bed, hug, say nothing in the face of questions to which there is no immediate answer. I pray. Gospel repeatedly shows us Jesus, who meets with patients accept them always sees them, looking at them as a mother looks at her son, who is ill – the Holy Father said. READ MORE
“Persecuted, refugees and immigrants, we’ll find our God”
After a visit in Prokocim, the Pope returned to Krakow, where he led the Way of the Cross in Krakow Błoniach. – Where is God? If there is evil in the world, people are hungry, thirsty, homeless, exiled refugees. Where is God when innocent people are dying because of violence, terrorism, wars? Where is God when merciless disease break the bonds of life and love? – Said Francis, in his homily, the Way of the Cross.
– Persecuted, refugees and immigrants, we’ll find our God – the Pope stressed. READ MORE
In the evening, the Holy Father again to appear in the “pope’s window” at the Franciscan 3.
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