Pope Francis' Health Update and Upcoming Easter Celebrations

"I have not recovered and cannot read the message. Monsignor Ciampanelli will do it for me," says Pope Francis, seated in a wheelchair as he begins his scheduled appointments with an update on his health. For more than three weeks, he has been troubled by cough and inflammation of the airways, the aftermath of a flu that is hard to cure. His workdays have lightened slightly, especially in the afternoon; however, his mornings are always full of meetings, speeches, ceremonies. The speech he had prepared for the community of the Infant Jesus was entrusted to a Vatican official who read it. Pope Francis and plots in the Vatican. "Court maneuvers to be abandoned." The anonymous booklet to guide the vote in the conclave. The text, rather long and substantial, referred to the mission of the 'Infant Jesus' carried forward also by many volunteers to whom he expressed his thanks. "Yours is not a job like many others: it is a mission, which everyone exercises in different ways. For some, it involves the dedication of a whole life; for others, the offering of their time in volunteering; for others still, the gift of their blood, their milk - for hospitalized newborns whose mothers cannot provide it -, up to the donation of organs, cells, and tissues, offered by living people or taken from the body of deceased persons. Love drives some parents to the heroic gesture of consenting to the donation of organs of their children who did not make it." Next week, the papal celebrations of the Easter season will begin starting from March 24, Palm Sunday, when Pope Francis has announced he will preside over the mass at 10 in St. Peter's Basilica. On March 28, Holy Thursday, he will be in St. Peter's Basilica for the Chrism Mass, and in the afternoon, the inmates of Rebibbia are waiting for him to celebrate the Mass of the Lord's Supper. The following day, Good Friday, the celebration of the Passion of the Lord is confirmed at 5 pm in St. Peter's Basilica and also the traditional Way of the Cross at the Colosseum, at 9:15 pm. On Saturday, March 30, Pope Francis will preside over the Easter Vigil at 7:30 pm in St. Peter's Square and on March 31, Easter Sunday, he will appear as usual from the central Loggia of St. Peter's Basilica, at 12, for the "Urbi et Orbi" blessing.