The awaited day has arrived. " John Paul II is blessed! ." Among the cheers of a crowd of a million and half people, distributed in the Plaza de San Pedro, the side streets and ten large rooms with giant television screens in various parts of Rome, Pope Benedict XVI declared yesterday the bliss of Polish Karol Wojtyla, just six years a month after his death, when was about to turn 85. It was the most imposing and massive beatification in Church history, the first step of the two leading to the altar of holiness.
"In a few years be holy," said Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the crowd cheered as John Paul II, raised placards at his funeral and said " Holy sudden! "and shouted the slogan that it was heard at the funeral of April 8, 2005, when they were 3 million faithful who mobilized.
Some observers felt that a similar ceremony, but for canonization, Karol Wojtyla proclaimed a saint in 2014 or 2015. We need a new miracle, but there are already 272 miraculous testimonies obtained through the intercession of John Paul II presented by faithful thankful.
" this exemplary son of the Polish nation helped Christians around the world to not be afraid to call themselves Christians, belonging to the Church talk about the Gospel " the pope said in his sermon after I have read in Latin the formula of proclaiming the new blessed.
said he was proud to have been with Karol Wojtyla for 23 years "and worship increasingly him." "Christ opened society, culture, political and economic systems, investing with the strength of a giant of God a seemingly irreversible trend that could ."
This trend was " burden of hope that somehow was given to Marxism as the ideology of progress " he said. John Paul II "God led the people of the third millennium legitimately claiming to Christianity" that burden of hope and "giving back the true face of living in history in a spirit of Advent, with a personal and community oriented to Christ. "
Karol Wojtyla " carried the profound reflection on the confrontation between Marxism and Christianity, focusing on man," Pope Ratzinger said, recalling the fundamental role of Karol Wojtyla in the process of release of Eastern European domination of Soviet Communism matrix, which culminated in 1989 first with the fall of the Berlin Wall and after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
The enthusiasm of the crowd was steady on a day that was feared was going to be rainy and instead was blessed by good weather. Thousands of people slept in the streets and bridges near the Vatican, and many churches were opened to facilitate the rest of the pilgrims from within Italy and throughout the world.
There were many young people with sleeping bags, which are called "Wojtyla generation" because they were born during the long reign of almost 27 years of John Paul II. Many of them later went from the Vatican to the square of the Basilica of St. John Lateran, which took place last night show the traditional Music organized by the three Italian confederations to celebrate May 1.
St. Peter's Square was opened to pilgrims at two o'clock yesterday morning, three hours in advance. Quickly became saturated and well before 10 o'clock in the morning, the central security began to orient people to the major areas designated in other parts of the city.
In the area closest to the shrine is located a hundred cardinals and official delegations, including Argentina, "which included 16 heads of state and six monarchs, such as Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia of Spain and King Albert II of Belgium and also lacked the Polish leader Lech Walesa. Among them was the dictator of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, who has stepped on European territory forbidden on pain of being arrested for genocide and human rights violations. But their presence should be tolerated, even by the Vatican, who received him with disgust because Mugabe was put under the umbrella of the sovereignty of the Holy See. The curious note was given by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who fell asleep in his chair with President Giorgio Napolitano, who looked astonished when they all stood in the Mass under Berlusconi, who nodded.
The Pope appeared in the sanctuary at 10 am on a white jeep with giving a wide turn around the Cardinals, leaders and diplomats. Twenty minutes later he began Mass and proclaimed the new blessed 10.38. In his sermon, Benedict XVI recalled that when he was alive and was witness to a great personal suffering, " perceived the perfume of holiness ." " The Lord was slowly stripped of everything and yet he was always like a rock, as Christ loved " concluded the Pope.
Source: Diario ClarÃn.
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