ANGELUS POPE FRANCIS
Saint Peter's Square – Palm Sunday,
9 April 2017
At the conclusion of this celebration, I cordially
greet all of you present here, especially those who have participated in the
international meeting in view of the synodal assembly on young people, promoted
by the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life in collaboration with the
General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops. This greeting is extended to all
young people who today, gathered around their bishops, are celebrating World
Youth Day in every diocese of the world. Begun by Saint John Paul ii, it is
another leg of the great pilgrimage which last year brought us together in
Kraków and that summons us to Panama in January 2019.
In this regard, in a few moments, the Polish young people
will deliver the World Youth Day Cross to the youth from Panama, each
accompanied by their respective pastors and by civil authorities.
Let us implore the Lord that wherever it passes, the
Cross, united to the icon of Maria Salus Populi Romani, may
increase faith and hope, revealing the invincible love of Christ.
To Christ, who today enters into the Passion, and to the
Blessed Virgin, let us entrust the victims of the terrorist attack which
occurred last Friday in Stockholm, as well as the many who remain severely
exhausted by war, the disgrace of the world. And let us pray for the victims of
the attacks unfortunately carried out today, this morning, in a Coptic Church.
To my dear brother, His Holiness Pope Tawadros ii, to the Coptic Church, and to
the entire dear Egyptian nation, I express my deepest condolences; I pray for
the dead and the wounded, and am close to the families and to the entire
community. May the Lord convert the hearts of people who sow terror, violence
and death, and also the hearts of those who make and traffic weapons.
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