Pope Francis, Pope Francis’s Holy Week, started yesterday with “one of the fronds” from the empty square of St. Peter because of the precautionary measures to confront the new Corona virus (COFFED-19), and urged those living during the pandemic crisis not to focus on what they lack, and pay attention to ways to reduce Suffering from others.
Yesterday's Mass is the beginning of the Holy Week that arrives at Easter, which are religious ceremonies that usually attract tens of thousands to St. Peter's Square with palm fronds and olive tree branches. Usually, the square witnessed long processions of bishops, priests, and worshipers.
As for this year, the Mass was held from a secondary altar behind the main balcony on which the Pope usually stands, and only about 24 people, counselors, nuns, and a choir attended the songs, all of them committed to social distancing.
Mass was broadcast on television and the Internet to millions of followers, and churches around the world held similar virtual masses this week due to restrictions preventing gatherings.
In his sermon, the Pope urged those watching and hearing him to “resort to God in light of the tragedy of the pandemic, which undermined many false safety factors and eliminated many hopes.” But he said that the pandemic can help turn fear into service.
And the Pope continued: «The tragedy that we witness calls us to take the important matters seriously, and not to occupy us with matters of lesser importance, we must rediscover that life is of no value if we do not use it to serve others. As life is measured by love. ”
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People attended the mass and committed themselves to socializing.