After the service, Singapore’s archbishop, Cardinal William Goh, paid tribute to the late pontiff.
“Pope Francis actually is a person for all, a person who has a coronary heart for the susceptible, the sick, marginalised, and people who are struggling,” he mentioned.
Throughout the Homily, he added that the pope was a person who cared for everybody, no matter whether or not they had been Catholics.
The Catholic Church will observe a nine-day interval of mourning, often called Novendiale and Sede Vacante, mentioned Mr Andre Ahchak, a spokesperson from the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Singapore.
There will probably be a devoted on-line area on the CatholicSG web site for folks to depart messages of condolences, he added. Parishes throughout the archdiocese will organise their very own memorial occasions and prayer vigils.
Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis was the primary Latin American chief of the Roman Catholic Church.
Earlier this yr, the pontiff spent 5 weeks within the hospital for double pneumonia. He left the power in March and final appeared in St Peter’s Sq. on Easter Sunday.
Cardinals are as a result of meet on Tuesday to plan Pope Francis’ funeral. The Vatican has mentioned it expects the ceremony to happen someday between Friday and Sunday.
Pope Francis will turn out to be the primary pope in additional than 100 years to be laid to relaxation outdoors the Vatican. He rejected the custom of getting three coffins and selected to be buried in only a single coffin manufactured from wooden and zinc.
