A few hours after total isolation in the Sistine Chapel of the 133 bishops who will choose the successor of Pope Francis, the sloping take advantage of their social networks profiles to share their latest thoughts, requests and preparations before the confinement.
Los Cardinals share this Tuesday on social networks His last movements before tomorrow the conclave begins to choose the successor of Pope Francis and They fire their faithful and followers With messages that range from prayer requests to videos washing your shirts to enter the https://eldesconciente.cl/search/sixtina.
A a few hours of total isolation and of being incommunicadothe sloping take advantage of their profiles in social networks, some with hundreds of thousands of followers, to say goodbye to the public sphere and share their latest thoughts, requests and preparations before the confinement.
Most prominent scene was from Chilean bishop
One of the most striking scenes It was starred by the Archbishop of Santiago de Chile, Fernando Chomali, who published a video washing a white shirt. “Washing the white shirt to get to the impeccable! United!
The video uploaded to its 1,400 followers account, Chomali received hundreds of comments and interactions and 72 my visualizations, with opinions of all kinds that were not answered or lowered.
More institutional was the message of cardinal Luis José RuedaArchbishop of Bogotá, who chose to publish a video on the YouTube channel of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia in which he speaks directly to the camera and remembers that the sloping are “men of flesh and bone.”
Rueda described the conclave as “A spiritual retreat from brothers in faith“, away from any parallel with political or civil elections, and asked the Colombian faithful to pray for the election of the new Pope and welcome him with love, as they did with Francisco.
Heavenly intercessors and requests to the Virgin
While The usual is entrusted to the Holy Spiritsome cardinals also resorted to other religious figures.
The American Raymond Burke shared a video on his X profile praying to the Virgin of Guadalupe: “I beg for the Church in a moment of great proof and danger to her.”
“That, by your intercession, the most dignified man is chosen to be a vicar of Christ on earth. With you, I put all my confidence in him who is our only help and salvation,” Burke wrote.
His compatriot, Cardinal Josep William Tobin, also remembered the same figure, although not to ask for direct help to choose the new Pope: “Our Lady of Guadalupe, mother of all nations and peoples, looks with love to all your children. For your intercession, that we can always know the love and goodness of Christ.”
Other purpurated opted for entrust to local figures, as Uruguayan Cardinal Daniel Sturla who recalled the anniversary of the death and beatification of his compatriot Jacinto Vera and asked “to intercede for our church and for the choice of the new Pope.”
Not forgetting their dioceses
It is conclave will be the most international in history with 133 participants from 70 countries Different, but still some purpurated decided to go in their last messages to the faithful of their dioceses, such as the Spanish Juan José Omella, who encouraged the faithful of Barcelona to pray “by the cardinals who, guided by the Holy Spirit, we have the responsibility of choosing the successor of St. Peter.”
Along the same lines, Cardinal Mongol Giorgio Marengo asked for sentences on behalf of all missionaries and faithful of Mongolia.
Brazilian cardinal Baltazar Porras shared a photograph with Pietro Parolin, current Secretary of State and one of the Papables, pointing to the “great interest and concern For the Venezuelan reality “that the Italian always showed, and his support for the country.
“I ask you to stay united in prayer for the future Pope, who will soon be teaching his blessing from the main balcony of the Basilica of San Pedro in Rome,” he asked his faithful.
One of the most active outlifters in social networks is the American Timothy Dolan, who accumulates 290,000 followers in his X account and publishes daily videos since he arrived in Rome after the death of Pope Francis.
The last on Monday after attending the last of the nine traditional masses by Pope Francis, in which he regretted the death of Bishop Emeritus of New York Gerald Walsh: “I miss him,” he wrote. EFE
