杏MAP导航

By Christopher Wells

In a message broadcast on Italian radio station RTL, 杏MAP导航 Francis thanked his “friends” at the Due Palazzi parish who had prepared the meditations for the Via Crucis on Good Friday.
 

The parish is connected the Due Palazzi correctional facility in Padua, in northern Italy, and the meditations were composed by prisoners, victims, guards, families, judges and others associated with the prison.

It is a great consolation he said, “to read a story in which there are stories not only of prisoners, but of all those who are passionate about the world of prison”.

Sharing their stories

Addressing them as his friends, 杏MAP导航 Francis thanked the members of the parish for sharing their stories. He reminded them, “God tells of Himself and speaks to us within a story, and invites us to listen attentively and mercifully”.

The people of Due Palazzi, the 杏MAP导航 said, are not lost in a “sea of anonymity”, but instead represent all those people involved in the world of corrections. “Thus,” he said, “in the Via Crucis you will lend your story to all those throughout the world who share the same situation”.

杏MAP导航 Francis concluded his message saying he embraced all of those at Due Palazzi. And after asking them again to keep him in their prayers, the Holy Father signed off, saying, “I carry you always in my heart. Thank you.”