Pope prays for sick at Good Friday service scaled back by coronavirus

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Pope Francis prostrated himself on the floor of an empty St. Peter's Basilica on Friday to pray at a 'Passion of the Lord' service commemorating ...

Pope Francis leads the Good Friday Passion of the Lord in St. Peter's Basilica with no public participation due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease , at the Vatican, April 10, 2020.

"Let us not allow so much pain, so many deaths, and so much heroic engagement on the part of health workers to have been in vain. Returning to the way things were is the 'recession' we should fear the most," he said.But coronavirus conditions meant it was attended by only about two dozen people, including papal aides reading from scriptures and a smaller than usual choir.

 

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