Pope Francis participated today (2) in the Palm Sunday mass, the ceremony that begins Holy Week. The celebration was in Saint Peter’s Square, in the Vatican, with the traditional and solemn procession of branches
Francis urged those present at the ceremony, estimated at 50,000, to take care of the abandoned people, who, according to him, are with Christ. According to tradition, most of the faithful carried olive branches from the Italian region of Umbria.
“Entire peoples are exploited and left to their own devices; there are poor people who live at the crossroads of our roads and whose eyes we don’t have the courage to fix; migrants, who are no longer faces but numbers; rejected inmates, people cataloged as problems. But there are also many invisible, hidden, abandoned Christians who are discarded in an ‘elegant’ way: unborn children, the elderly left alone, the sick not visited, people with disabilities ignored, young people who feel a great emptiness inside without anyone really listening to their cry of pain,” Francis said of those who need to be cared for.
hospital discharge
the pontiff was discharged and left the Gemelli Hospital, in Rome, on Saturday morning (1st), after three days of hospitalization due to a respiratory infection.
*With information from the Vatican News website
