There is a modus operandior, rather, a modus vivendiWe should try to imitate Pope Francis and his pontificate in an attempt to truly embark on the path of peace and fraternity.
This is what immediately comes to mind if we look back at the hours leading up to the Pontiff's admission to the Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital on June 7. Before going to this Rome hospital in a car like any other patient, the Holy Father had wanted to celebrate his usual Wednesday audience anyway, meeting, at the end, with the newlyweds and the faithful present in St. Peter's Square. The Pontiff did not let the pain that had been tormenting him for several days take hold of him, but allowed his heart to be filled with love and concern for others.
To understand that this was not an isolated case, it is enough to rewind the tape of the chronicle of that event and go back to the eve of his resignation, on June 15: Francis, still convalescing from the laparotomy operation, had wanted to bring comfort to the children hospitalized in the pediatric oncology and children's neurosurgery ward of the Roman hospital. As he left the Gemelli Polyclinic to return to the Vatican, he responded to those who asked him how he was feeling by expressing his sorrow for the 80 migrants who had died in the shipwreck off the coast of Greece.
In short, the Pope's is a continuous exercise of self-dimensioning, almost of emptying, to make room for the needs of wounded humanity in need of understanding and affection. If each one of us were to succeed, even if only in part, in putting into practice this modus vivendiwe would undoubtedly be better.
