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Pope Francis has known as for prayers for the previous head of the Catholic Church, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the day after his dying.
“As we speak we entrust the beloved pope emeritus Benedict XVI to the mom of God, to accompany him on his journey from this world to God,” Pope Francis mentioned on Sunday in the course of the New 12 months’s Mass in St Peter’s Basilica.
“All of us be part of along with one coronary heart and soul in thanksgiving to God for the reward of this devoted servant of the Gospel and the Church,” he mentioned.
The former pontiff died on Saturday morning on the Mater Ecclesiae monastery within the Vatican Gardens, the place he had lived since his resignation in 2013.
His final phrases had been “Lord, I like you,” his long-time secretary mentioned on Sunday, quoting a nurse who helped look after the 95-year-old in his closing hours.
Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, a German prelate who lived within the Vatican monastery the place Pope Benedict took up residence after his 2013 retirement, mentioned the nurse recounted listening to the ailing former pope utter these phrases at about 3am Saturday.
“Benedict XVI, with a faint voice however in a really distinct approach, mentioned in Italian, ‘Lord, I like you’,” Archbishop Gaenswein instructed the Vatican’s official media, including that it occurred when the aides tending to Pope Benedict had been altering shifts .
“I wasn’t there at that second, however the nurse recounted it just a little later,” he mentioned.
“They had been his final understandable phrases, as a result of afterwards, he wasn’t in a position to specific himself any extra.”
German theologian Joseph Ratzinger, as Pope Benedict was born, will lie in state at St Peter’s Basilica from Monday so the devoted pays their respects.
His funeral will probably be held on January 5.
