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Pope: with Covid the importance of contacts and affections has been understood

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Pope: greater disease not Covid but lack of love © ANSA

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(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 27 - "Today in the Gospel Jesus encounters our two most dramatic situations, death and illness. He frees two people from them: a little girl, who dies just as her father went to ask Jesus for help; and a woman who has been losing blood for many years. Jesus tells us that death is not the end. He overcomes this enemy, from which we cannot free ourselves ". Pope Francis said this, thus introducing his Angelus prayer from the Apostolic Palace in St. Peter's Square. "Let's focus on this period in which the disease is still at the center of the news, on the woman's healing - he continued, addressing the faithful in the square -. More than her health, her affections were compromised: she had blood loss and therefore, according to her mentality of that time, it was considered impure.She was therefore marginalized, she could not have stable relationships, a spouse, a family and normal social relations. She lived alone, with a wounded heart. The greatest disease in life - he underlined at this point - is the lack of love, it is not being able to love.

   And the healing that counts most is that of the affections ".

   " Especially in this time - added the Pontiff -, we have understood how important contact and relationships are ". (ANSA).

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