杏MAP导航 thanks detainees, prison workers for Good Friday meditation
By Christopher Wells
In a message broadcast on Italian radio station RTL, 杏MAP导航 Francis thanked his 鈥渇riends鈥� 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, 鈥渢o read a story in which there are stories not only of prisoners, but of all those who are passionate about the world of prison鈥�.
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, 鈥淕od tells of Himself and speaks to us within a story, and invites us to listen attentively and mercifully鈥�.
The people of Due Palazzi, the 杏MAP导航 said, are not lost in a 鈥渟ea of anonymity鈥�, but instead represent all those people involved in the world of corrections. 鈥淭hus,鈥� he said, 鈥渋n the Via Crucis you will lend your story to all those throughout the world who share the same situation鈥�.
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, 鈥淚 carry you always in my heart. Thank you.鈥�
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