Pope Emeritus rested well overnight, condition stable

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Source: Vatican News

The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, today (Friday) confirmed that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI's health condition remains stable at this time. He added that on Thursday evening Benedict XVI had a good rest, and earlier in the afternoon had concelebrated Mass in his room.

This evening, Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, Vicar of the Diocese of Rome, presided over the celebration of Mass at the Basilica of St John Lateran, remembering in prayer Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and his health.

The Diocese of Rome has encouraged "parish communities, chaplaincies, religious men and women, all the faithful of the diocese and all the men and women of good will who live in Rome," to gather in prayer for Benedict XVI, "remembering with gratitude the road travelled together with our bishop emeritus," and accompanying him now "in this time of suffering and hardship, praying to the Lord that He may console him and sustain him in his witness of love for the Church until the end."