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wiadomość Onetu:
>Odwaga, wiara i cierpienie Jana Pawła II
Ze wszystkich mszy rezurekcyjnych odprawionych na placu św. Piotra w ciągu
wieków nie było podobnej do tej, której byliśmy świadkami wczoraj - pisze
londyński "The Times" w swym poniedziałkowym wydaniu.

Msza zdominowana była przez człowieka, który brał w niej formalnie udział
zaledwie przez kilka minut, ale którego obecność, lub w istocie jej brak, był
istotą tego zebrania wiernych. Kiedy Jan Paweł II pojawił się w końcu w oknie
swojego prywatnego apartamentu, jego odwaga, determinacja a także widoczne
cierpienie były czymś oczywistym.

Oddychał z wysiłkiem, próbował wydobyć z siebie coś więcej niż szept do
mikrofonu i widać było, że najmniejszy ruch rąk przychodzi mu z trudem. Była
to msza ciała i krwi Chrystusa, ale także łez w oczach wielu wiernych nad
schorowanym, ale heroicznym najwyższym kapłanem.

Wymowa tego wydarzenia stawała się jeszcze ostrzejsza przez pamięć o
nietypowej sile, którą ten papież niegdyś demonstrował. Widok człowieka o
takiej energii, który podróżował do wszystkich zakątków świata, w takim
stanie jest szczególnie przygnębiający.

To, że papież, który niegdyś mówił w imieniu milionów uciskanych - a w
Europie wschodniej był katalizatorem jej wyzwolenia - nie jest obecnie w
stanie wypowiedzieć zdania w swym własnym imieniu jest okrutną i palącą
ironią - podkreśla "The Times<
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Arukuł Times'a:

Pilgrims at the Vatican weep for a silent Pope
From Richard Owen in Rome

The Pope's frustration is apparent as he struggles in vain to give the
faithful in Rome his Easter Day blessing (MAURITZIO BRAMBATTI / EPA)

TENS of thousands of pilgrims — many in tears — watched the Pope struggling
in vain to speak yesterday as he appeared at his window to bless the faithful
in St Peter’s Square for Easter Day.
Although an aide placed a microphone in front of the Pope, he managed only a
few inarticulate sounds. He stayed at the window for several minutes making
the sign of the cross and at one point put his hand to his head in a sign of
suffering and frustration.

This was the first time in his 26-year reign that the Pope, 84, has failed to
preside at any of the Easter and Holy Week services. “It causes the Pope pain
to be on the sidelines,” L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, said.



On Good Friday Italian television broadcast images of the Pope watching the
Via Crucis (Stations of the Cross) ceremony at the Colosseum in his private
chapel wearing his papal robes, but showed him only from the back. He
appeared almost immobile, although for the final moments of the ceremony he
held a wooden crucifix in trembling hands.

During his appearance yesterday, which was broadcast live on Italian
television and to 73 other countries, the Pope’s face appeared distorted and
rigid, the result of the advance of Parkinson’s disease as well as the severe
breathing difficulties that led to an emergency throat operation last month.

With the Pope incapacitated, the Easter Day Mass was taken by Cardinal Angelo
Sodano, the Vatican’s Secretary of State (or Prime Minister), who is also the
Pope’s deputy.

Aides said that the Pope had wanted to tour the square in the “Popemobile”
but had been overruled by his doctors.

The last time he spoke in public was on March 13, the day that he left the
Gemelli Hospital in Rome. Yesterday he remained at his window for more than
ten minutes while Cardinal Sodano read out the traditional Urbi et Orbi (to
the city and the world) Easter message.

There was thunderous applause and cheering as the Pope withdrew and the
curtains at his window were drawn, but many on the square were clearly
distressed, their hands clasped in prayer.

Tim Moran, a Catholic from Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, who was on the
square with his wife Diane and their sons Ryan, 16, and Daryl, 13, said that
the experience was “very emotional, almost overpowering”.

“This Pope has such moral authority it is hard to imagine the world without
him,” Mr Moran said. “He has been a fixed point in an unstable world”.

Chris Pinder, from Taunton, Somerset, said that she was “very moved — you
feel a sense of history but also great sadness”.

During the Easter Mass prayers were read asking God to grant “life and new
energies” to the ailing Pope.

The Pope, a noted linguist, normally reads the Easter blessing in 60
languages. The address read on his behalf said that people were hungering
for “truth, freedom, justice and peace” and asked God to “sustain us on our
journey”.

He also called for “generous solidarity toward the multitudes who are even
today suffering and dying from poverty and hunger, decimated by fatal
epidemics or devastated by immense natural disasters”.

He prayed for peace in areas “drenched in the blood of innocent victims”,
such as Africa and the Middle East.

He said that the message of Easter was that “what was destroyed is rebuilt,
what was old is renewed and everything returns more beautiful than before to
its original integrity”.

The Pope did not attend the Easter vigil in St Peter’s on Saturday night,
which was taken instead by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who is one of the
Pope’s closest aides.

Cardinal Ratzinger will play a key role in the conclave to choose the next
Pope and is one of a handful of top cardinals who have celebrated Holy Week
services on the Pope’s behalf. Cardinal Ratzinger also composed this year’s
Via Crucis meditations, one of which addressed the sexual abuse scandals that
have shaken the Roman Catholic Church. “How much dirt there is in the Church,
even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong completely to God,”
Cardinal Ratzinger said.

www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1544449,00.html

Rozkoszniakom z Onetu dedykuję szczególnie ten fragment:
The address read on his behalf said that people were hungering for “TRUTH,
freedom, justice and peace”