Love is in the air: Pope marries couple mid-flight during Chile visit
Aboard the papal plane, Jan 18, 2018 / 07:00 am (ACI Prensa).- In his five years in office, Pope Francis has become known globally for tossing protocol and embracing spontaneity. Today, he did it again with another papal first by marrying two flight attendants on board his flight from Santiago to Iquique.
According to journalists traveling with the Pope, the couple – Paula Podest and Carlos Ciuffardi – went to the Pope during the Jan. 18 flight to ask for his blessing.
The couple told Francis they had been civilly married, but had not been able to get married in their Church because it was destroyed in the massive 8.8 earthquake that rocked Santiago in 2010.
In response, the Pope offered to marry them on the spot. Ignacio Cueto, owner of the airline company, LATAM, was a witness in the ceremony.
According to Ciuffardi, who spoke briefly with journalists after the ceremony, the Pope asked the couple if they were married yet, and when they explained why they hadn’t been married in the Church, he said “do you want to get married?”
The Pope, Ciuffardi said, asked “Are you sure, absolutely sure?” They said yes, gave the Pope Podest’s ring and asked Cueto, if he would be a witness. The Pope then blessed the ring, placed their hands together, offered some brief reflections and pronounced them man and wife.
#PopeFrancis married these flight attendants aboard the papal plane flying to Iquique, #Chile this morning.
Their wedding was canceled when an earthquake destroyed their church in Santiago in 2010.
Join us in congratulating the happy couple! #FranciscoEnChile pic.twitter.com/3pQ64oy7nP
— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) January 18, 2018
According to Ciuffardi, Francis told them what happened “was historic,” because “ever has a Pope married a couple on a plane.”
Referring to the rings, Francis jested that they shouldn’t be too tight, because “they would be a torture,” nor too loose, or else they might risk misplacing them.
Since they didn’t have an official marriage certificate to sign, Pope Francis asked the cardinals with him to draft one, so they grabbed a piece of blank copy paper and each signed their names and what role they played in the ceremony. One of the cardinals also signed as a witness.
The Pope also gave the couple two rosaries, Podest received a white rosary and Ciuffardi a black one.
The couple – who have two children, Rafaela, 6, and Isabela, 3 – said they will be traveling with the Pope to Iquique, and from there will take a different flight to another destination.
“It was something historic, really. Very exciting. What he told us was very important: he told us ‘this is the sacrament that the world needs, the sacrament of marriage. Hopefully, this will motivate couples around the world to get married’,” Ciuffardi said.
Source: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/love-is-in-the-air-pope-marries-couple-mid-flight-during-chile-visit-68704/
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