“Oeeeeeee, oeoeoeeeeeeeee. Oeeeeeee. Oeeeeeee”. Son las siete y media de la tarde en el estadio del Real Madrid. Las gradas están repletas: unas 70.000 personas cantan, aplauden con fuerza y corean genuinamente el famoso cántico sin letra, que suele oírse en las competiciones deportivas. Pero esta vez no se celebra un partido de fútbol. Tampoco la última victoria de Florentino Pérez, que finalmente seguirá al frente del club. El que acaba de salir al campo es Robert Prevost, el papa León XIV. El público le recibe como a una auténtica superestrella, a la que los artistas invitados (como David Bustamante o Íñigo Quintero) le dedicaron sus canciones dentro de un estadio que, de manera excepcional, volvía a dar conciertos. “Hoy la Iglesia ha echo un golazo para siempre”, bromeó el pontífice.
Antes de su entrada, la pareja televisiva formada por Christian Gálvez y Patricia Pardo acompañó a un público expectante. En uno de los interludios, ambos fueron introduciendo a unos jóvenes invitados por sus parroquias que venían de zonas como Getafe o Tres Cantos. Desfilaron por el escenario y hablaron de sus deseos o ambiciones. También se animó la espera con conciertos, homenajes o marionetas. Pasadas las siete de la tarde, todo se paró en seco: León XIV estaba a punto de llegar.
Una retransmisión en vídeo mostró al papa desde su vehículo, poco después de abandonar la Catedral de la Almudena y recibiendo un baño de masas cuando iba a entrar al estadio. En su interior, las aglomeraciones y la distancia entre los asientos y el escenario impedían ver con claridad, pero las voces se agitaron desde el momento en el que cruzó la puerta. Un largo aplauso –que duró minutos– recibió a León XIV en el Bernabéu. Lo primero fue escuchar los testimonios de algunos asistentes, que iban saliendo al escenario para contar su propia historia. Hablaron un vecino “laico” que un día decidió unirse a la vida parroquial, un treintañero a punto de casarse y que hace poco recibió su Primera Comunión o una familia de peruanos, en un guiño indirecto a sus orígenes como sacerdote en este país de Latinoamérica.
Entre el jolgorio y la emoción, el público gritaba o aplaudía con cada referencia: jóvenes, adultos, niños y una amplia masa de fieles fueron llenando un estadio abarrotado, donde los grupos de voluntarios (vestidos con camisetas verde) y varios trabajadores de seguridad ponían mil ojos a su alrededor. En un momento, León XIV abandonó el sillón blanco que coronaba el escenario poligonal, dividido en dos secciones diferenciadas, para dirigirse a la comunidad diocesana de Madrid. Con la broma del gol católico, las risas inundaron por unos segundos el estadio de fútbol, pero se cortaron rápidamente cuando el pontífice empezó a hablar.
“Gracias al arzobispo [José Cobo] por haber introducido la parábola del canto”, apuntó sobre los conciertos, que esa tarde entretuvieron a decenas de miles de espectadores durante la ofrenda floral en La Almudena. El papa reconoció en las canciones, muy habituales para la liturgia religiosa, otra forma de “crear comunidad” entre las “distintas almas” que ha ido conociendo en su visita. Considera a España como un pueblo que “ama la música, la danza y el estar juntos”, pero que también conoce la “frustración y la desconfianza”. Y por eso ha dirigido un mensaje a su comunidad diocesana, protagonista de aquel encuentro.
“Vosotros testimoniais el Evangelio en la capital de un gran país europeo, sede de instituciones y organizaciones en las que se toman decisiones importantes para el presente y el futuro. Pero también destino de millones de visitantes y de hermanos y hermanas, en busca de nuevas oportunidades”, concluyó, antes de evocar la historia bíblica de Nehemías: “Él involucró a una comunidad entera para reconstruir los muros de Jerusalén”. Una alegoría que llama a reconocer al otro y “no temer” a la diversidad de voces, procedencias o sensibilidades. Le sirve, al final, para lanzar otra advertencia: “Huid de las personas que cantan siempre la misma melodía”.
Vosotros testimoniais el Evangelio en la capital de un gran país europeo. Pero también es el destino de millones de visitantes, de hermanos y hermanas, en busca de nuevas oportunidades
Papa León XIV
— Discurso en el estadio Santiago Bernabéu
Mientras Prevost hablaba, no se veía un solo asiento libre entre las gradas. Lograr una plaza no era fácil, pero cada cual tenía sus razones para intentarlo. “La Iglesia me ha cambiado la vida”, resumía uno de los chavales que, en un momento dado, tomaron el micrófono. Otro hombre narró la situación que le hizo entregarse a la fe, después de conocer cómo era la vida teniendo hijos con discapacidad. Entre los presentes también había meros curiosos, o algún que otro espectador que decidió unirse al gran evento estelar que esa semana tocaba en Madrid: con Bad Bunny haciendo diez conciertos en el estadio Metropolitano, el Bernabéu contraprograma el hito con un discurso del papa.
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