Capuchin Roberto Pasolini now the Vatican’s new preacher, who is the only individual able to provide meditation to the pope as well as other senior officials of the Catholic Church.
“Holy Father, brothers and sisters all. May the Lord give you peace. And may he give it to me too who, with this meditation, try to take up again the long and precious legacy of Father Raniero Cantalamessa,” he said.
In the background were the instruments for the concert for the poor that was to take place the next day. And in front of the preacher was the pope together with officials of the curia.
It is a tradition that on every Friday of Advent and Lent they attend this meditation entrusted to the Vatican’s official preacher. In this case, he preached on the difficulty that people have in accepting God’s novelties.