ROME – The stable Pope Francis visited the Vatican Foreign Minister, where he continued his recovery from double pneumonia, but he again skipped his weekly back grace to avoid a short public appearance from the hospital.
Instead, the Vatican distributed a message from the Pope, in which he thanked his doctors for their care and those with reconciliation for their prayers, and prayed again for peace in Ukraine and other places.
“From here, the war seems more absurd,” Francis said in the letter he drafted in the last days of Jimili Hospital. Francis said he was living in the hospital as an experience in deep solidarity with people with patients and suffering everywhere.
Francis said in the text: “I feel in my heart that” the blessing “is hidden within weakness, because it is specifically in these moments that we learn more than we trust in the Lord.” “At the same time, I thank God for giving me the opportunity to participate in the body and spirit the state of many patients and suffering.”
Signs refer to recovery
It was distinguished by the third consecutive weekend holiday, in which Francis canceled Sunday's date, which personally provides Angelos prayer. He could have done this from the tenth floor hospital wing at Gemili Hospital if it was good enough.
But many signs indicated that it was improving, especially after the respiratory crisis on Friday afternoon, which led to the inhalation of vomiting during coughing coughing and increased the possibility of a new infection.
The Vatican said on the Sunday update: “Tonight was quiet, and the Pope is still resting.” Francis was awake, read Sunday leaves, coffee and breakfast, with continued treatment.
Cardinal Petro Parolin and his chief of staff, Archbishop Edgar Bena Barra, also called on the Pope on Sunday morning his second visit since he entered February 14 in hospitals, according to the Vatican spokesman, Matteo Brunei. There were no details about what was discussed, but just a visit suggested that the case of Francis was stable.
The doctors reported on Saturday that Francis was in a stable condition, while not mentioning it to be embarrassed, and was able to spend “long periods” from the time of the unintended mechanical ventilation that he needed to recover after the respiratory crisis on Friday.
The Vatican said that the 88 -year -old Pope had a “good response” in gas exchange levels even while the industrial breathing mask on Saturday and the use of additional high oxygen.
He had no fever or signs of high white blood cells, which would indicate that his body was fighting a new infection.
The fact that Francis was able to use high -flow oxygen for long periods, without any significant effect on the levels of oxygen in his blood, was an outrageous breathing sign.
Doctors were cautious and kept his diagnosis as guarding, which means that it was not out of danger. The Vatican said that he was eating, drinking and continuing in respiratory physical therapy, and spent 20 minutes in his own church in the hall on Saturday.
The Pope, who had a part of one lung of a young man, suffers from lung disease and was accepted in Gemelli on February 14 after bad inflammation of the bronchi and turned into complex pneumonia in each of the lungs.
The prayers continued to flow
The hospital was entering Francis at a time when the Vatican occupies his holy year, where the pilgrims withdraw to Rome from all over the world. Many added the pilgrimage to their paths so that they can pray for Francis at Gemelli Hospital, which is about 20 minutes by the Vatican car, or longer in the peak hour or in public transport.
Reverend Ricardo Fumagali had accompanied a group of young people from Milan to Rome for the Jubilee and would have attended Francis Angeles prayer in Saint Peter's Square on Sunday if he had delivered it as usual. Instead, they went to Gemili.
He said: “It seemed good for us to come here to express our proximity, especially these teenagers, to be close to the Holy Father to pray for him, to pray for this moment of illness.”
On Sunday, cancer Antonio Caks was arrived at Gemili from Milan for his own treatment, saying he had to undergo surgery in the coming days and was dependent on Francis prayers.
He said: “I am happy because the Pope gives me help.” “I am in the ninth (the ground) and it is on the tenth (floor). I hope to meet and see it.”
