Did John Paul Ii Read John Every Day
His personal secretary remembers the Shine pope's routines, starting with his 5 a.one thousand. wake-up, prayer, and common cold shower.
In an all-encompassing interview, Archbishop Mieczysław Mokrzycki, a secretary to two popes, recalled a number of details from John Paul 2's everyday life. "I saw what others did not run across," the saint'south personal secretarial assistant can safely say.
5:00-5:thirty a.m. – wake up
John Paul II got up between 5:00 and 5:30 a.m. Ordinarily he managed with a mere six and a half hours of slumber. "He woke upwards by himself. He had an alarm clock in his bedroom, simply I exercise non remember him using it but one time," recalls Archbishop Mokrzycki.
Immediately after waking, the pope started to pray. "After he took a shower, e'er a cold one, which as he claimed, was healthier," adds the onetime papal secretary. Subsequently the Holy Male parent was readying himself to go to the chapel for meditation and Holy Mass.
seven:00 a.chiliad. – Holy Mass
When in the chapel, prior to Mass, the Holy Father would take out two sheets of paper — a listing of Vatican employees. He would slowly read the names, pray and finally brand the sign of the cross over the sheet of paper, blessing each of the Vatican staff.
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After Mass, in the library on the third floor of the Apostolic Palace, John Paul II met for a short conversation with those who had participated in the forenoon Eucharist. When the guests had left, he returned to the chapel to pray.
8:15 a.thousand. – breakfast
The Pontiff'due south workday began later breakfast. On the mode from the refectory to his apartment, the pope leafed through the press. At his bedroom desk John Paul II read liturgical texts and reflections on excerpts from Scripture, and and so reviewed and signed documents. Two large files with documents were sent to the secretariat each day: 1 in the morning and the other i in the evening.
"The documents were neatly bundled. There were divide files with the documents awaiting the pope's signature, correspondence from the cardinals, bishops and country officials equally well as messages forwarded to the attention of the pope from the Secretary of State, the substitute, congregation prefects, and the press office. The Holy Begetter read it all. He would add comments and make notes on each document. For case, he asked people to come and talk to him about a certain matter or else to reply on his behalf. On other documents he simply made a note that he had familiarised himself with their contents," says Archbishop Mokrzycki.
nine:00 a.thousand. – writing speeches, addresses, sermons, and homilies
After breaking his arm, John Paul II did not write himself, only dictated his documents. Note-taking was one of the specific duties of Fr. Mokrzycki. "He would always dictate from memory. He never consulted books or scientific texts; all had been thoroughly reflected upon … Whatever he said was precise and did not require whatsoever corrections."
11:00 a.grand.-12:xxx p.one thousand. – audiences
Before his audiences, the Holy Father would depart for the terrace of the Churchly Palace and pray the Rosary. Then he would get to the chapel. His official audiences took identify in the library on the second floor. When the audiences were finished, the pope returned to the chapel.
1:30 p.m. – luncheon
The guests invited for lunch would get together in the Apostolic Palace earlier 1:xxx p.thousand. John Paul 2 greeted them and led to a chapel for a moment of prayer; the chapel was revisited later on the repast. When Fr. Stanisław Dziwisz saw the guests off, the pope once again became immersed in prayer.
3:00-4:xxx p.one thousand. – reading books
"We had a rota: i twenty-four hours I was reading to the pope, and the other solar day it was Sr. Eufrozyna," says Archbishop Mokrzycki. The pope would lie downwardly on his bed with his optics half-closed.
The pope could not catch up with reading all the books he received from individuals or publishing houses. Whenever he got new books, too during the Wednesday audiences, he immediately separated them into groups: some went to the library, others to the office, and still others were set up aside for the holiday fourth dimension in Castel Gandolfo. There was besides a special pile of books for the Ursuline sister Emilia Ehrlich.
"She was not employed at the Vatican. She came to the Holy Father each Monday and familiarised him with abstracts of a few books. This prompted a short dialogue between them. She drew the pope's attention to some aspects and clarified them, while the pope asked for details," remembers Archbishop Mokrzycki.
5:00 p.m. – signing documents
Later on the book-reading time, the Holy Begetter recited the Vespers. Afterwards he signed some other batch of documents, effectually xxx-forty of them, e.g. episcopal nominations.
6:00-7:30 p.1000. – audiences
The afternoon audiences were attended by the inner circle of John Paul Ii'southward collaborators. On Mondays and Thursdays – the Secretary of Land. On Tuesdays – the Substitute (head of the General Affairs Section at the Secretariat of State). On Wednesdays – the Vatican minister of strange affairs. On Friday – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Religion. On Sundays – the Prefect for the Congregation for Bishops.
7:30 p.one thousand. – dinner
9:00-10:xxx p.m. – reading books
The Holy Male parent listened to books from a variety of topics, ranging from literature, through history to theology and dogmatics. When listening to a volume on dogmatics he would often say: "Let us move on to the adjacent affiliate." When I was reading on, he would say: "I know this. Allow us keep to the adjacent affiliate." I doubtable he knew much more than than the authors and oftentimes did not detect anything new in these texts, says Archbishop Mokrzycki.
10:30 p.yard. – The Appeal of Jasna Góra
John Paul II, following Smoothen tradition, sang a brief hymn to Our Lady of Czestochowa at the close of the twenty-four hours. Called "The Appeal of Jasna Gora" and popularized internationally past the pope at World Youth Days, the hymn asks Mary's intercession and pledges, "Mary, Queen of Poland, I am by Your side, I remember, I go along spotter!"
John Paul Ii finished his day at effectually xi p.one thousand. "He opened the bedroom window and looked at Rome for a longer fourth dimension. Then he made a blessing with the sign of the cross. I recall information technology was a approval for the entire globe," reminisces Archbishop Mokrzycki.
This article is reprinted from Aleteia's Polish edition.
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Source: https://aleteia.org/2017/06/02/a-day-in-the-life-of-john-paul-ii/
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