The Holy Sunday service of the Catholics ended a little while ago, in the Vatican. The religious ceremony was officiated by Pope Francis, who was yesterday discharged from the Gemelli Hospital in Rome. The pope, still slightly strained, thanked those who prayed for his health. “Thank you for your support and prayers, which have intensified over the past few days. I thank the people of Rome and the pilgrims,” ​​the pontiff said. In St. Peter’s Square, this morning the faithful exceeded 60,000 thousand.

“We must be close to the despised, to all the abandoned,” said Frafgiskos, who blessed the faithful across the square from a car known as the “papa mobile.”

“A week ago, a German homeless man died, under the colonnade of this square, alone and abandoned. For each of us, that man is Jesus. There are so many people who need us, there are so many abandoned ones. I too need the caress of Jesus, to feel him close to me. For this reason I visit him and look for him among the abandoned, among those who have no one,” said the pope, in his message.

Tomorrow, Catholic Holy Week begins. As it became known, on Thursday, Francis will go, for the Ceremony of the Washbasin, to Rome’s juvenile prison, Casal del Marmo. This is exactly the same choice he had made ten years ago, shortly after his election by the Conclave.

On Friday, the pope will celebrate, in the Colosseum, the “Way of the Cross” (Via Crucis), in which Jesus’ martyrdom march to Calvary is represented.