Pope asks for prayer in the message from the hospital

Pope Francis has asked Catholics to pray for them, as they continue to receive treatment in hospital for double pneumonia.

Pontiff was unable to individually to the traditional angelus prayer running on the second Sunday.

But in a message written in the last few days, he said that he was confidently “confidently” to be admitted to his hospital in Jameli Hospital in Rome and “proceed with necessary treatment”.

Comes after the message Vatican revealed on Saturday that the 88 -year -old situation remains “important”,

In his message released on Sunday, the Pope thanked the doctors and health workers in the hospital, and sent messages to well -wishers.

“In recent times I have received many messages of affection, and I have been killed especially from children and pictures,” he wrote.

“Thanks to this closeness, and for the prayer prayer to me from all over the world! I hand over all of you for the conscience of Mary, and I ask you to pray for me.”

The well -wishers continue to pray outside the hospital.

Dozens of people have been seen illuminating the candles and have been left on the leg of the nearby Pope John Paul II statue.

Was 88 years old First entered the hospital on 14 February After facing difficulties in breathing for several days.

It is especially caused by lung infection, causing a pulmonary developing – an inflammation around the lungs – as an adult and one of its lungs removed at the age of 21 years.

During his 12 years as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Argentina has been hospitalized several times, including in March 2023 when he spent three nights with bronchitis at the hospital.

The Pope has asked for openness about its health, so the Vatican has started issuing a daily statement. There is diversity in the tone and length of the declarations, sometimes the pope-verses leave to try to read between the lines.

On Saturday, the Vatican stated that Roman Catholic leaders were alert and spent the day in an armchair, but that he was “not out of danger” and he was “more unhealthy” than Fridays.

He added the need of blood transfusions to the pontf due to a low platelet count – connected to anemia – and required the “high flow” of oxygen.

The doctors treating the Pope confirmed this week that he was responding to the drug, but his condition was complicated and a minor change of circumstances would be disturbed that which was called “delicate balance”.

“He is the Pope,” one of them put it. “But he is also a man.”

The Pope used his message on Sunday to highlight the third anniversary of the war in Ukraine on Monday, and people pray for gifts of peace in Palestine, Israel and the Middle East ” Called to.

Angelus prayer is usually offered by the Pope from a window of the epostolic palace in the vatican and is accompanied by a small message.