Pope thanks to volunteers for the “miracle of tenderness” for his doctors share a positive update of health

Pope Francis posted a message on Sunday thanks to volunteers on the “miracle of tenderness” offering patients, because the Vatican celebrated the Mass of the Holy Year for volunteers around the world in his absence.

After more than three weeks in a hospital recovering from double pneumonia, an 88-year-old Pope’s doctors reported positive news about his health Over the weekend, saying that Francis responded well to treatment and showed “a gradual, slight improvement” in recent days.

On the fourth Sunday in a row, 88-year-old Francis did not show up for his weekly blessing, but met with his best MPs, and Saint moved to distribute the text that would give him that he was well enough. In it, the Argentine pope thanked everyone who took care of him and others who are sick and experience “the night of pain”.

“Brothers and sisters, during my long hospitalization here, and I experience the thoughtfulness of the service and tenderness of care, especially from doctors and health care workers, to whom I thank from the bottom of the heart,” read the message from the Gemelli Hospital.

“And while I am here, I mean many people who are close to the sick in different ways and who are the sign of the Lord’s presence for them. We need it,” Miracle of tenderness “that follows those in trouble, bringing some light into the night of pain,” he wrote.

Francis, who has a chronic lung disease and had a part of one lung removed as a young man, remained in a stable condition in Gemelli, without fever and good blood oxygen in the blood for several days, doctors reported on Saturday in the Vatican statement.

Doctors said that such stability “as a consequence testifies to a good response to therapy.” This is the first time the doctors have reported that Francis has responded positively to the treatment of a complex lung infection that has been diagnosed after being hospitalized on February 14th. A positive update for Francisco was followed by several respiratory crises.

The doctors characterized the pope’s forecast as “guarded”, which means it is not out of danger.

“In order to record these initial improvements and in the coming days, his doctors cautiously maintained a forecast as guarded,” the Vatican said in a statement.

On Sunday morning, the Vatican reported that Francis was resting after a quiet night.

In his absence, the Vatican’s daily operations continued with the celebration of their sacred year, sometimes in the anniversary of each quarter that brings millions of pilgrims to Rome. On Sunday, Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny, who was close to Francis, celebrated the Mass of the Holy Year for the volunteers that Francis was to celebrate.

During the Mass at St. Peter’s Square, a giant banner carried by Francis’s papal coat of arms fluttered from the loggia of the basilica above. Even while in the hospital, Francis is still a pope and in charge of the Catholic Church.

This was also evident that State Secretary of the Vatican, Cardinal Pietro Parolin and head of the headquarters, Archbishop Edgar Pena Parra, visited the Pope on Sunday for the third time since he was in the hospital. The Vatican noted that such meetings were routinely how the Pope managed while he was in the Vatican, which is clear that he would be of Gemelli.

Francis used high -kicks of extra oxygen to help him breathe during the day and at night a non -invasive mechanical ventilation mask.

Francis was hospitalized on February 14 for being only a bad case of bronchitis at the time. The infection progressed in a complex respiratory tract infection and a double pneumonia that ran in Francisco in the longest period of 12-year-old papacy and asked questions about the future.