Within the framework of the First World Children’s Day, which took place in Rome on the weekend of May 25 and 26, three Argentine children were able to talk with Pope Francis, and ask him the question that many in their native country asked. They ask: “When are you coming to Argentina?”
The meeting lasted 35 minutes and the children were accompanied by their mothers and by Father Iván Dornelles, executive secretary of the Children’s Vicariate of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires.
In this context, the Holy Father addressed Mateo, 11 years old; Margaret, 6; and Milagros, 8 years old; and he asked them: “Do you want to tell me something?”
In the chorus, the three children, from two Buenos Aires parishes, asked him: “When are you coming to Argentina?”
“I would like to go at the end of November or the beginning of next year,” said the Pontiff.
After the meeting, the priest who accompanied the Argentines assured: “It is a grace from God to be able to be here, with Pope Francis, he was very affectionate, very close, I feel it like a caress from God,” according to the AICA agency.
“What we experienced on Saturday, May 25, was fabulous, the meeting of cultures in which we all came together as a Church, like that Pentecost that made us speak different languages, but believe in the same God,” he assured, highlighting at the same time “ the joy, the innocence of the boys, their screams when the Pope appeared, the dancing, the balloons or the choreography.”