Vatican City, 29 March 2015 (VIS) –
Following the Eucharistic celebration, the Holy Father prayed the
Angelus and greeted all those present, especially the young, whom he
exhorted to continue on their path both within the dioceses and in
their pilgrimage across continents, leading next year to Krakow,
Poland, the homeland of St. John Paul II, who initiated the World
Youth Days.
“The theme of this great meeting:
'Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy', harmonises
with the Holy Year of Mercy”, he said. “Let yourselves be filled
with the tenderness of the Father, to radiate it around you. And now
we turn in prayer to Mary, our Mother, so that she might help us to
live Holy Week with faith. She too was present when Jesus entered
Jerusalem, acclaimed by the crowd; but her heart, like that of her
Son, was ready for sacrifice. Let us learn from Her, faithful Virgin,
to follow the Lord even when His path leads to the Cross. I entrust
to her intercession the victims of last Tuesday's aviation tragedy,
among whom there was also a group of German students”.
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