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POPE-ANGELUS Feb-21-2005 (390 words) With photos. xxxi
Pope delivers Angelus talk, speaks of commitment to papal ministry
By John Thavis
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- For the first time since his hospitalization in early February, Pope John Paul II delivered his regular Sunday talk to pilgrims and spoke about his commitment to the papal ministry.
The pope spoke from his apartment window Feb. 20 in a relatively strong but hoarse voice, interrupted once by a cough. He looked animated as he waved to the crowd and greeted several thousand people gathered in St. Peter's Square below.
When he finished the brief appearance, a wave of applause swept through the crowd along with cheers of "Long live the pope!"
The 84-year-old pontiff was slowly resuming his schedule as he continued to recover from a flu-related respiratory inflammation. The Vatican said he met privately Feb. 19 with Chaldean Patriarch Emmanuel-Karim Delly of Baghdad, Iraq, and with Italian Bishop Renato Corti of Novara, who preached the pope's Lenten retreat Feb. 13-19.
The Vatican announced, however, that instead of holding his weekly general audience Feb. 23, the pope would greet and bless pilgrims from his apartment window.
In his Angelus talk, the pope reflected on the retreat, which he followed via a video link from his apartment. Vatican officials attended the twice-daily sessions of the spiritual exercises.
The retreat focused on the Eucharist, which the pope said was the key to understanding the papal ministry that Christ first entrusted to St. Peter.
"The Petrine ministry is essentially service to the unity of the church," the pope said. It is carried out with God's help, he added, citing Christ's words to St. Peter: "I have prayed that your own faith may not fail; and once you have turned back, you must strengthen your brothers."
The pope said the papal ministry was summed up when Christ told St. Peter, "Feed my sheep."
"I feel in a particularly deep way these words of Jesus when I contemplate the eucharistic mystery. To him, the good shepherd, I entrust the entire people of God in this Lenten path toward Easter," he said.
The pope's comments were immediately seized upon in the Italian news media as evidence that he had rejected the possibility of resigning the papacy. As with earlier illnesses, the pope's latest illness -- combined with comments from various cardinals -- prompted speculation about possible eventual resignation.
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