Pubblichiamo di seguito il telegramma di cordoglio per la scomparsa dell’Em.mo Card. Jaime L. Sin, Arcivescovo emerito di Manila, avvenuta alle prime ore di questa mattina, inviato dal Santo Padre Benedetto XVI a S.E. Mons. Gaudencio B. Rosales, Arcivescovo di Manila (Filippine):

TO THE MOST REVEREND GAUDENCIO B. ROSALES

ARCHBISHOP OF MANILA

DEEPLY SADDENED BY THE DEATH OF CARDINAL JAIME L. SIN, I OFFER HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES TO YOU AND TO ALL THE CLERGY, RELIGIOUS AND LAITY OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MANILA. RECALLING WITH GRATITUDE CARDINAL SIN’S UNFAILING COMMITMENT TO THE SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL AND TO THE PROMOTION OF THE DIGNITY, COMMON GOOD AND NATIONAL UNITY OF THE PHILIPPINE PEOPLE, I JOIN YOU IN PRAYING THAT GOD OUR MERCIFUL FATHER WILL GRANT HIM THE REWARD OF HIS LABORS AND WELCOME HIS NOBLE SOUL INTO THE JOY AND PEACE OF HIS ETERNAL KINGDOM. TO ALL ASSEMBLED FOR THE SOLEMN MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL I CORDIALLY IMPART MY APOSTOLIC BLESSING AS A PLEDGE OF CONSOLATION AND STRENGHT IN THE LORD.

BENEDICTUS PP. XVI

[00782-02.01] [Original text: English]

[B0337-XX.01]