"Sometimes not everything can be done because I let myself be led by imprudent exigencies: too much work, or to think that if I don’t do this today, I won’t do it tomorrow … Adoration fails, my siesta fails, this fails …"
- Francis to a group of seminarians -
Francis Stats
- Age - 77 years old
- Awakens each day at 4:45am
- Performs Novus Ordo Missae at 7:00am
- Lunch at 1:00pm followed by 30 minute nap
- Dinner at 8:00pm
- Works 15 hours a day
- 229 public daily Novus Ordo Missaes at Casa Santa Marta
- Over 12,000 people who have attended these services
- Attended 95 major liturgical celebrations or events
- Given 231 speeches
- Written & delivered 73 official homilies
- Written & given 73 Angelus addresses
- Held 54 general audiences
- 6 million people have come to see him (there's that number again)
- Spent 150 hours outside during these audiences in both winter and summer
- Delivered 55 messages
- Taken two official trips abroad
- Embarked on four trips within Italy
- Visited five Roman parishes in his official capacity
- Reads 50 letters a day, from the 4,000 he receives
"The ideal is to finish your day tired. Not so tired that you have to take pills, but a good tired. If it is a reckless tiredness, it is bad for your health and you will end up paying dearly in the long run. This is the idea, but I don’t always manage to do it — even I am a sinner and not always so organized!"
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