 Saturday, March 16, 11 AM local time (6 EDT). Pope Francis meets journalists on special audience in Paul VI Hall. Some 4,000 of them from around the world filled up the Hall. Pope expressed words of thanks for their important service in the period of vacancy and conclave. He emphasized how important delivering news is in making history of the modern world. In the second part of his address Pope explained how it happened he choose name of Francis – “he is the man of poverty, the man of peace, the man who loves and protects creation”. And next he told what Church he thinks about: “How I would like a Church which is poor and for the poor!”. Read the full text:
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 At 6:OO AM EDT, Friday, March 15, Pope Francis met College of Cardinals, including the elderly ones who did not participate in his election, in special audience at Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace. Not only cardinals electors were present but those elders who couldn’t take part in the conclave, too. After being greeted by Dean of the College, Cardinal Sodano, the Pope addressed attendants. Smiling Pope Francis implored his audience to “not cede to the bitterness and pessimism that the devil offers us every day.” Instead, the church must “find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.” The full text of his address follows:
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 At noon (EDT) newly elected Pope Francis and 114 cardinals electors celebrated the Missa pro Ecclesiae (Mass for the Church) at Sistine Chapel. During the Mass he delivered his first, yet informal, homily as Pontifex. The seven minute speech in Italian wasn’t prepared earlier. Holy Father used his notes only. Below is the translation of his homily from Vatican Radio.
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 February edition of NUNTIA – monthly news bulletin of General Curia of the Congregation of the Mission has just been released. Inside you can read about recent visit of the Superior General to Western Province; some news from Moskitia in Honduras, where Vincentians are involved in ministry and from Southern Cone where new course of Internal Seminary started. Fr. Zeracristos, Assistant General, gives very interesting reflection on future of the Congregation after his recent visit to India.
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 A meeting with College of Cardinals at 11:OO AM (Rome time) was the last official event of Pope Benedict XVI. It took place in beautiful frescoed Clementine Hall attended by 144 cardinals those who will elect new Pope and those over 80. In his farewell address the Pontiff said “May God show you what He wants from you. Among you, in the College of Cardinals, there is the future pope to whom already today I promise my unconditional reverence and obedience,” the Pope said. Read the full text of his speech:
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Under a clear blue sky with temperatures in the low 40s, the pope arrived for his last public audience shortly after 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, February 27, 2013, standing and waving for almost 15 minutes as his white popemobile made a circuit through the square. Some 150,000 pilgrims gathered at St. Peter’s Square cheering the Pope and waving national flags and banners. Willingly, he stopped for few moments and took some babies in his arms to bless them.
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 “This year, our Lenten journey begins early. Yet, it is never too soon for Vincentian Family to contemplate the gifts of faith in Jesus Christ along with the heritage of hope, our charism,” writes Fr. Gregory Gay CM, Superior General at the beginning of his letter for Lent. Then, he continues, “Lent and the “Year of Faith” call for a renewal and deepening of our faith and charism”.
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 As we did in the past, we offer you this Lenten Letter of the Superior General in eight languages adapted for mobile devices in two ways, either as “eBook” files or as online document in Scribd.com .To get one of the documents you want to view, simply, scan one of the QR (2D) codes below, or the code in the picture above, and open the link in your device.
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