What are the odds you get a kiss from Pope Francis when you’re standing in the middle of thousands of people?
The family of 8-month baby girl Sabrielle La Salette Rosete would agree if you answered it’s highly improbable.
Stephen Janssen and Jona May, the baby’s parents, told the CBCP News even they were not expecting the sudden encounter would ever happen.
“We feel very blessed, very, very lucky,” Jona related to the religious website after this rare chance of a lifetime. Stephen answered, “I just raised her very, very high.”
“It was my prayer, as grandma. Sinabi ko na we have to go and baka makita (ni Pope Francis si Sabrielle). Sobrang answered prayer,” Lina Rosete, the baby’s grandmother said, as quoted in a report by CBCP News.
The Rosetes were just one of the thousands of families who trooped outside the Mall of Asia Arena to catch a glimpse of the Pope. The usual concert and sports venue was transformed into a religious place on Friday, January 16, where 17,000 pre-selected audience waited for the visiting pope.
The little less than 2-hour event saw Francis hearing three Filipino families’ stories on what they have to say about forming a family in this largely Catholic country.
Addressing families in attendance, the Argentinian pope emphasized “the gift of the family."
"It is important to dream in the family. All mothers and fathers dream of their sons and daughters in the womb for 9 months. They dream of how they will be. It isn’t possible to have a family without such dreams. When you lose this capacity to dream you lose the capacity to love, the capacity to love is lost,” he said.
The Pope is known to pull out kids from the crowd wherever he goes. He either blesses or kisses children during his trips.
His fondness of kids prompted Filipinos to call him “Lolo Kiko”—lolo being the Tagalog word for grandfather and Kiko, the usual nickname of Filipinos named Francis.
Filipino healing priest Joey Faller said the pope loves his local name in the Philippines, he related to ABS-CBN News last December. The priest was at a general audience in the Vatican last November when he shouted “Lolo Kiko! Lolo Kiko!” while Pope Francis was riding a popemobile. A smiling pope looked back, indicating he liked his new nickname.
The family of 8-month baby girl Sabrielle La Salette Rosete would agree if you answered it’s highly improbable.
Stephen Janssen and Jona May, the baby’s parents, told the CBCP News even they were not expecting the sudden encounter would ever happen.
“We feel very blessed, very, very lucky,” Jona related to the religious website after this rare chance of a lifetime. Stephen answered, “I just raised her very, very high.”
“It was my prayer, as grandma. Sinabi ko na we have to go and baka makita (ni Pope Francis si Sabrielle). Sobrang answered prayer,” Lina Rosete, the baby’s grandmother said, as quoted in a report by CBCP News.
The Rosetes were just one of the thousands of families who trooped outside the Mall of Asia Arena to catch a glimpse of the Pope. The usual concert and sports venue was transformed into a religious place on Friday, January 16, where 17,000 pre-selected audience waited for the visiting pope.
The little less than 2-hour event saw Francis hearing three Filipino families’ stories on what they have to say about forming a family in this largely Catholic country.
Addressing families in attendance, the Argentinian pope emphasized “the gift of the family."
"It is important to dream in the family. All mothers and fathers dream of their sons and daughters in the womb for 9 months. They dream of how they will be. It isn’t possible to have a family without such dreams. When you lose this capacity to dream you lose the capacity to love, the capacity to love is lost,” he said.
The Pope is known to pull out kids from the crowd wherever he goes. He either blesses or kisses children during his trips.
His fondness of kids prompted Filipinos to call him “Lolo Kiko”—lolo being the Tagalog word for grandfather and Kiko, the usual nickname of Filipinos named Francis.
Filipino healing priest Joey Faller said the pope loves his local name in the Philippines, he related to ABS-CBN News last December. The priest was at a general audience in the Vatican last November when he shouted “Lolo Kiko! Lolo Kiko!” while Pope Francis was riding a popemobile. A smiling pope looked back, indicating he liked his new nickname.
On Friday, the pope of many surprises deviated from itinerary and sneaked from the Manila Cathedral upon concluding his first mass in the country to meet some street children.
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