Pope Francis is scheduled to leave the hospital on Saturday – once the results of the latest tests conducted on Friday are available. The Pontifex, who is suffering from a respiratory infection, will only participate in the Easter celebration to a limited extent. He was supposed to attend Mass on Palm Sunday, but he will not take part in the procession with the cardinals.
The Pope is doing well, Bruni reported. On Thursday evening he ate a pizza with the people who were with him today, including doctors, nurses, assistants and gendarmerie personnel. On Friday morning, after breakfast, the pope read some newspapers and went back to work.
Doctors: Pope “recovered well”
Francis had previously spent the second night in the hospital. The pope is currently being treated for bronchitis and will receive an antibiotic through IVs, doctors said. The pope has “well recovered” and scheduled treatment will continue, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said Thursday evening.
Vatican initially spoke of “planned investigations”
The pope was admitted to hospital in Rome on Wednesday afternoon. First, the Vatican announced it was a “planned investigation”. In the evening there was talk of a respiratory infection “which will require appropriate medical treatment in hospital for several days”.
Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, deputy dean of the College of Cardinals, will preside over Mass at the beginning of Easter week. “I can confirm that I will celebrate Mass on Palm Sunday. Of course I hope that the pope will recover and can preside over the liturgies as on other occasions, even if there is a cardinal at the altar,” the Argentine said, according to media sources.
Sandri assured that “all the people of God will be united in prayer with Pope Francis, especially for his speedy recovery”. Meanwhile, it has been announced that the Easter Mass will be celebrated by Cardinal Dean Giovanni Battista Re, the Chrism Mass on Maundy Thursday morning by Cardinal Vicar Angelo De Donatis and the Midday Mass “in Coena Domini” with the ritual washing of the feet by Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, Archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica. Easter is considered the highest Christian holiday. Christians commemorate the suffering, crucifixion, and resurrection of the faithful Jesus Christ, whom they view as the Son of God.
Source: Krone
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