Do they pray against the Pope in the Vatican? Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s jab comes in the form of a funny anecdote told during the pontiff’s speech at the General States of Birth, in Rome. “Pray for me, for and not against”, said Pope Francis at the end of his speech with a joke that he usually makes at the end of his speeches. But this time he adds the details: “Once – he said – I was finishing a hearing and twenty meters away, where there was the fence, there was a lady, a little old lady, beautiful eyes. She says ‘come, come.. .’, nice. I approached: ‘What is your name?’ ‘And how old are you?’ ‘What do you do, what do you eat to be so strong?’ ‘I eat ravioli, I make them’ and he gave me the recipe for ravioli”, is Beroglio’s story.
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The anecdote continues: “And then I said: ‘But madam, please pray for me’. ‘I do it every day’. And as a joke I said ‘but pray for, not against’. And the old lady smiling he said to me: ‘Be careful Father, they are praying against him in there…'”, says Pope Francis. “Smart eh! A bit anti-clerical…”, joked the Pontiff. “For, not against!”, he reiterated, asking for prayers from the applauding audience (the Pope’s anecdote in the video below or at this linkat minute 46).
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