Pope Places Presidential Honors at Feet of Our Lady of Copacabana
Rome, July 10, 2015 (ZENIT.org) Junno Arocho Esteves | 439 hits
Earlier this morning, Pope Francis celebrated a private Mass at the private residence of the Archbishop Emeritus of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia.
According to the Holy See Press Office, the Holy Father presented two decorative honors that were conferred onto him by Bolivian president Evo Morales, to a statue of the Our Lady of Copacabana, patroness of Bolivia.
The gesture, the Press Office stated, was presented by the Pope to the Blessed Mother “so that on looking at them she will take care of this beloved people with great maternal tenderness and protect them with Him.”
Before placing the two honors on the statue, the Pope expressed his gratitude to the Bolivian people and their president, as well as explaining why he chose to leave them with Our Lady of Copacabana.
“May she always remember her people and also that from Bolivia, from her Shrine, where I would like them to be, may she remember the Successor of Peter and the whole Church, and look after her from Bolivia,” he said.
The following is a ZENIT translation of the Holy Father’s prayer to the Blessed Mother:
Mother of the Savior and our Mother, You, Queen of Bolivia, who from the height of your Shrine in Copacabana attend to the prayers and needs of your children, especially the most poor and abandoned, and protect them:
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Earlier this morning, Pope Francis celebrated a private Mass at the private residence of the Archbishop Emeritus of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia.
According to the Holy See Press Office, the Holy Father presented two decorative honors that were conferred onto him by Bolivian president Evo Morales, to a statue of the Our Lady of Copacabana, patroness of Bolivia.
The gesture, the Press Office stated, was presented by the Pope to the Blessed Mother “so that on looking at them she will take care of this beloved people with great maternal tenderness and protect them with Him.”
Before placing the two honors on the statue, the Pope expressed his gratitude to the Bolivian people and their president, as well as explaining why he chose to leave them with Our Lady of Copacabana.
“May she always remember her people and also that from Bolivia, from her Shrine, where I would like them to be, may she remember the Successor of Peter and the whole Church, and look after her from Bolivia,” he said.
The following is a ZENIT translation of the Holy Father’s prayer to the Blessed Mother:
Mother of the Savior and our Mother, You, Queen of Bolivia, who from the height of your Shrine in Copacabana attend to the prayers and needs of your children, especially the most poor and abandoned, and protect them:
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