The local church of Pope Francis has said goodbye to many small funerals. The highlight on Monday evening with a Requiem in the St. St. St. Stephen’s Cathedral led by the chairman of the Bishops conference, Salzburg cake bishop Franz Lackner: “He was a pope of the surprise,” said Lackner. And further: “He leaves his testimony of grace.”
The banks were well filled at the Soul Fair for the late Pope Francis in the cathedral of St. Stephen. “The basic experience of the grace of God has formed the life and work of Pope Francis,” said the chairman of the Austrian bishops’ conference, Franz Lackner.
Francis was a “Pope of the surprise”: “The name is already testifying.” Because he had just shot the late pope in his head when the Brazilian cardinal Claudio Hummes once whispered: “Don’t forget his arms.”
In his last apostolic letter, Pope Franciscus quotes the warning: “More than everything outside of everything your heart is.”: “Because only there can really come – or deep evil,” reports the Archbishop of Salzburg. The church should not exclude the church, the head of the church said, because even evil is there.
His grace was also clear in the fact that he visited the prison of Regina Coeli – on Maundy Thursday, four days before his death and heavy. Lackner: “He was asked why he did it. And Francis said he always asked himself in such places:” Why you, and not me? “
“Pope Francis was not only a pastor, as it were a pastor of the whole world – he was also a big teacher,” said Bishop Lackner. With his letters he built “Lighthouses of Faith” – “Orientation markets, no goals”. These would shine us for a long time.
Lackner: “He sacrificed the last distance of his life, formed by suffering and vulnerability.
On Easter Sunday he wished the world “Buona Pasqua!”, So “Happy Easter!”. Lackner: “His last meeting with people was all over resurrection.”
His pontificate was accompanied by different expectations: “To meet everyone, one thing would have been impossible,” Lackner said and argued: “Some questions will continue to exist; we will have to ask ourselves.”
Politics and church
Political representatives of the Republic also had part of the Soul Fair, including federal president Alexander van der Bellen with wife Doris Schmidauer, Chancellor Christian Stocker and mayor of Vienna Michael Ludwig.
Furthermore, UA-President Walter Rosenkranz, the minister Anna Sporrer, Eva-Maria Holzleitner and Claudia Plakolm, announced the Federal Council for President Andrea Eder-Giftschter, the chairman of the Constitutional Court Christoph Grabenwarter and the President of the Margit Kraker.
In addition to countless believers, representatives of other Christian denominations and religions, members of the diplomatic corps and the domestic bishops and the apostolic Nuncio in Austria, Archbishop Pedro Lopez Quintana, also said goodbye to the Pope in St. Stephen.
The Crying Emmanual
Incidentally, Archbishop Lackner also reminded of a moving incident in his sermon: in 2018, children were able to ask Francis in a Roman parish during a visit, but little Emmanual did not dare.
Francis asked the crying boys to whisper his concern in his ear: Emmanuele’s father had shortly before died as a atheist, but had baptized his children.
The boy now feared that the father would not come to heaven. God will not violate him, Francis explained: God was merciful and had “the heart of a loving Father”.
Source: Krone
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