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This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week, from 12 May 2023 to 30 May 2023.

Homilies

• 28 May 2023 – Holy Mass on the Solemnity of Pentecost

Messages

• 13 May 2023 – Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for the Launch of the Family Global Compact [30 May 2023]

Regina Caeli

• 28 May 2023 – Regina Caeli, Solemnity of Pentecost

Speeches

• 12 May 2023 – To the participants in the third edition of States General on Natality
• 25 May 2023 – To the Participants in the national meeting of diocesan representatives of the Italian Synod path
• 27 May 2023 – To Participants in the Conference promoted by ‘La Civiltà Cattolica’ and by Georgetown University
• 29 May 2023 – Audience with paediatric cancer patients of the Wrocław Oncological Clinic, Poland
• 29 May 2023 – To children from various African nations, on the occasion of ‘Africa Day’
• 29 May 2023 – To the Clerics Regular of Saint Paul (Barnabites)

Papal Tweets

• “The first task of Christians is to keep alive the flame that Jesus brought to earth (Lk 12:49), which is the Love of God: the Holy Spirit. Without the fire of the Spirit, prophecies are extinguished, sorrow supplants joy, and routine substitutes love.” @Pontifex, 26 May 2023
• “The Holy Spirit is the source of joy, born of our relationship with God, from knowing that we are not alone, lost or defeated even amid struggles and dark nights, because He is with us. We can overcome everything with God, even the abyss of pain and death.” @Pontifex, 27 May 2023
• “If the world is divided, if the Church is polarized, if hearts are broken, let us not waste time in criticizing others and growing angry with one another; instead, let us invoke the Spirit.” @Pontifex, 28 May 2023
• “Come, Creator Spirit, harmony of humanity, renew the face of the earth. Come, Gift of gifts, harmony of the Church, make us one in you. Come, Spirit of forgiveness and harmony of the heart, transform us as only you can, through the intercession of Mary.” @Pontifex, 28 May 2023
• “Holy Spirit, Spirit of Jesus and of the Father, inexhaustible wellspring of harmony, to you we entrust the world; to you we consecrate the Church and our hearts. JsrQZMtg Homily” @Pontifex, 28 May 2023
• “Let’s #PrayTogether for the populations who live at the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh, hard hit by a cyclone. I hope access to humanitarian aid will be enabled, and I appeal for a sense of solidarity to aid these brothers and sisters of ours.” @Pontifex, 28 May 2023
• “The People of God, in order to be filled with the Spirit, must therefore journey together, “do Synod”. That is how harmony in the Church is renewed: by journeying together with the Spirit at the centre. Brothers and sister, let us build harmony in the Church!” @Pontifex, 29 May 2023
• “I thank all who have joined the #FamilyGlobalCompact, and I invite them to devote themselves creatively and confidently to every initiative that can help put the family once more at the heart of our pastoral and social engagement. @laityfamilylife” @Pontifex, 30 May 2023
• “Let us #PrayTogether that the international community commit itself concretely to abolish torture, guaranteeing support to victims and their families. #PrayerIntention #ClickToPray fWAu Video” @Pontifex, 30 May 2023

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This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week, from 4 May 2023 to 25 May 2023.

General Audiences

• 17 May 2023 – General Audience – Catechesis. The passion for evangelization’ the apostolic zeal of the believer. 13. Witnesses’ Saint Francis Xavier
• 24 May 2023 – General Audience – Catechesis. The passion for evangelization’ The apostolic zeal of the believer. 14. Witnesses’ Saint Andrea Kim Tae-gon

Letters

• 19 May 2023 – Letter of the Holy Father to the Bishop of Hiroshima on the occasion of the G7 Summit

Messages

• 4 May 2023 – Video Message of the Holy Father to young people for the upcoming World Youth Day 2023 in Lisbon [1–6 August 2023]
• 13 May 2023 – Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation [1st September 2023]

Regina Caeli

• 21 May 2023 – Regina Caeli

Speeches

• 25 May 2023 – To Participants in the General Chapter of the Little Missionary Sisters of Charity (Opera Don Orione)

Papal Tweets

• “Amidst the hardships and difficulties of the missions, may the commitment and example of Saint Francis Xavier help us discover the deep joy of the missionary, happy to bring Christ to the farthest ends of the earth. #GeneralAudience” @Pontifex, 17 May 2023
• “Jesus ascends to the Father to intercede on our behalf, to present our humanity to Him. Thus, before the eyes of the Father, our lives, our hopes, our wounds are always present through Jesus’s humanity. #AscensionOfTheLord” @Pontifex, 18 May 2023
• “Christians do not diminish the seriousness of suffering, they raise their eyes to the Lord and under the blows of adversity, trust in him and pray for those who suffer. They keep their eyes on Heaven, but their hands are extended to earth, to serve their neighbour concretely.” @Pontifex, 19 May 2023
• “We are the dust of the earth, upon which God has poured out His heaven, the dust that contains His dreams. We are God’s hope, His treasure, and His Glory.” @Pontifex, 20 May 2023
• “We should not be afraid of proclaiming the truth, even if it is at times uncomfortable, but of doing so without charity, without heart. #WCD RyQx Message” @Pontifex, 21 May 2023
• “With the Ascension, something new and beautiful happened: Jesus brought our humanity into heaven, that is, in God. That humanity that he had assumed on earth did not remain here. It ascended into God and there it will remain forever.” @Pontifex, 21 May 2023
• “Yesterday, #LaudatoSiWeek began. I invite everyone to collaborate in the care of our common home. There is such a need to put our capabilities and creativity together! N” @Pontifex, 22 May 2023
• “The Holy Spirit keeps faith ever young. He does not bind Himself to passing epochs or trends, but brings the relevance of Jesus, risen and living, into our world today.” @Pontifex, 23 May 2023
• “When the Gospel is lived in its fullness, we do not turn in on ourselves, but bear witness to the faith by making it become a contagious faith. Our passion for evangelization is born in this way. #GeneralAudience” @Pontifex, 24 May 2023
• “Today we commemorate the Blessed Virgin #MaryHelpOfChristians. May Our Mother of Consolation grant the grace to bear witness to the faith to the Church, her pastors and the faithful, especially families, the elderly and those who are ill.” @Pontifex, 24 May 2023
• “On the feast of Our Lady of Sheshan, let us #PrayTogether that the Good News of Christ crucified and risen may be proclaimed in its fullness, beauty and freedom, bearing fruit for the good of the Catholic Church and all of Chinese society.” @Pontifex, 24 May 2023
• “Let us heed the call to stand with the victims of environmental and climate injustice, and to put an end to the senseless war against Creation. #LaudatoSiWeek #SeasonOfCreation
  Message” @Pontifex, 25 May 2023

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This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week, from 13 April 2023 to 16 May 2023.

General Audiences

• 10 May 2023 – General Audience

Messages

• 11 May 2023 – Message for the 109th World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2023
• 11 May 2023 – Message of the Holy Father to the participants in the International Conference ‘Peace among peoples. Sixty years after Pacem in Terris’

Regina Caeli

• 14 May 2023 – Regina Caeli

Speeches

• 13 April 2023 – To Members of the Religious Association of Social and Health Institutes (ARIS)
• 5 May 2023 – To the participants in the Pilgrimage of the diocese of Asti
• 10 May 2023 – To Participants in the Conference sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
• 11 May 2023 – Private meeting of Pope Francis with His Holiness Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the historic meeting of their p
• 11 May 2023 – To the members of the Conference of Missionary Institutes in Italy
• 11 May 2023 – To the participants in the General Assembly of Caritas Internationalis
• 13 May 2023 – To the Participants in the general meeting of the Unión Mundial de las Organizaciones Femeninas Católicas (UMOFC)
• 13 May 2023 – Presentation of Credential Letters by the Ambassadors of Iceland, Bangladesh, Syria, The Gambia and Kazakhstan accredited to the Holy See
• 13 May 2023 – To the members of the ‘Asociación Agraria Jóvenes Agricultores’, Spain

Papal Tweets

• “In our daily mission as baptized Christians, may the love of Christ push us toward the peripheries of our societies to meet our brothers and sisters who have been cast aside and abandoned, to show them the Lord’s tenderness. #GeneralAudience” @Pontifex, 10 May 2023
• “I wholeheartedly thank His Holiness Tawadros II, Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark, for his commitment to the growing friendship between the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church. May the blessed day quickly draw near when we will be one in Christ!” @Pontifex, 10 May 2023
• “Everyone must have the chance to live a dignified life in their native land. The choice to migrate or remain is a right that should be guaranteed for all. Let us work to ensure this is the case. #WDMR2023 @vaticanIHD C Message” @Pontifex, 11 May 2023
• “It is with great joy that I welcomed today His Holiness Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, beloved brother and dear friend, with whom I celebrated the 50th anniversary of the historic meeting between Pope St. Paul VI and Pope Shenouda III.” @Pontifex, 11 May 2023
• “May the prayers of the Coptic martyrs, united with those of the Theotokos, continue to help our Churches grow in friendship, until the blessed day when we can celebrate at the same altar and receive together the Body and Blood of the Savior. oSUknZj Image” @Pontifex, 11 May 2023
• “#Birth rates and a welcoming attitude reveal how much happiness is present in society. A happy community naturally develops the desire to generate and welcome others, while an unhappy society is reduced to a group of individuals defending what they have at all costs.” @Pontifex, 12 May 2023
• “May #OurLadyOfFatima, the Mother of Jesus and our own mother, help us create paths of encounter and dialogue that lead toward peace, and grant us the courage to trod them without hesitation. #PrayTogether” @Pontifex, 13 May 2023
• “The Holy Spirit is demanding, because He is a true, faithful friend, who hides nothingand suggests what we need to change and where we need to grow. But when He corrects us, He never instills distrust. Rather, He assures us that we can always succeed with God. #GospelOfTheDay” @Pontifex, 14 May 2023
• “The #family is the main antidote to material and spiritual poverty, and to the problem of the demographic winter. Family-friendly social, economic and cultural policies need to be promoted in every country, as well as policies that welcome life.” @Pontifex, 15 May 2023
• “Building #peace means initiating and sustaining processes of development to eliminate poverty, to defeat hunger, to guarantee health and care, to safeguard the common home, to promote fundamental rights and to overcome discrimination determined by human mobility.” @Pontifex, 16 May 2023

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This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week, from 3 March 2023 to 9 May 2023.

Apostolic Letter

• 25 March 2023 – Apostolic Letter in the form of ‘Motu Proprio’ of the Supreme Pontiff Francis ‘Vos estis lux mundi’ (Updated)

General Audiences

• 3 May 2023 – General Audience – Catechesis. The Journey to Hungary

Messages

• 3 March 2023 – Message of the Holy Father to the Fondazione Memorie Audiovisive del Cattolicesimo (MAC) (Audiovisual Memories of Catholicism Foundation), on the occasion of its founding

Regina Caeli

• 7 May 2023 – Regina Caeli

Speeches

• 30 April 2023 – Apostolic Journey to Hungary’ Press Conference on the return flight to Rome
• 4 May 2023 – To participants in the Colloquium with the ‘Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies’
• 5 May 2023 – To the members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors
• 6 May 2023 – To the Pontifical Swiss Guard
• 6 May 2023 – To Italian Tennis and Padel Federation
• 8 May 2023 – To the Religious of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit

Papal Tweets

• “#FreedomofthePress is an important indicator of a country’s state of health. In fact, dictatorships are quick to restrict it or suppress it. We need journalists who are free, who help us not to forget many situations of suffering.#WPFD2023” @Pontifex, 3 May 2023
• “The Risen Christ is our future. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the starting point and the ultimate goal of the history of humanity. As much as it is marked by fragility, our life has been solidly placed in His hands. #GeneralAudience” @Pontifex, 3 May 2023
• “If in our hearts we are carring some burden or suffering that seems to crush us, it is the moment to go out to meet Jesus, who is close, to open the tomb of our problems and look beyond the threshold toward his light. #Prayer” @Pontifex, 4 May 2023
• “If you don’t have much time to pray, there is a wise spiritual practice that can help you. Often throughout the day, you can repeat very short prayers, so-called aspirations, to remain “in harmony” with the Lord.” @Pontifex, 5 May 2023
• “Praying the #HolyRosary daily in the family guarantees that in that family the oil of faith and joy never runs out, but flows out of the life of its members who are in communion with God.” @Pontifex, 6 May 2023
• “Let us not be overwhelmed by the present: let us look up to Heaven, let us remember the goal, to think that we are called to eternity, to the encounter with God. Let us renew today the choice to love Jesus, and to follow him. #GospelOfToday (Jn14:1–12)” @Pontifex, 7 May 2023
• “In this month of May, let us pray the Rosary, asking the Blessed Virgin for the gift of peace, especially for beleaguered Ukraine. May the leaders of nations listen to the desire of the suffering people who want peace!” @Pontifex, 8 May 2023
• “Life is not about showing off our abilities, but a journey towards the One who loves us: by keeping our gaze fixed on the Lord, we will find the strength needed to persevere with renewed joy.” @Pontifex, 9 May 2023

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This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week, from 13 April 2023 to 2 May 2023.

Homilies

• 30 April 2023 – Apostolic Journey to Hungary’ Holy Mass in Kossuth Lajos’ Square

Messages

• 24 April 2023 – Message of His Holiness Pope Francis to Participants in the WOOMB International Congress on ‘The ‘Billings Revolution’ 70 Years Later’ From Fertility Knowledge to Personalized Medicine’ Rome

Regina Caeli

• 30 April 2023 – Apostolic Journey to Hungary’ Regina Caeli

Speeches

• 13 April 2023 – To Participants in the General Assembly of the Union of Major Superiors of Italy (USMI)
• 28 April 2023 – Apostolic Journey to Hungary’ Meeting with Bishops, Priests, Deacons, Consecrated Persons, Seminarians and Pastoral Workers (St. Stephen’s Co-Cathedral)
• 28 April 2023 – Apostolic Journey to Hungary’ Meeting with the Authorities, Civil Society and the Diplomatic Corps in the former Carmelite Monastery
• 29 April 2023 – Apostolic Journey to Hungary’ Meeting with young people in ‘Papp László Budapest Sportaréna’
• 29 April 2023 – Apostolic Journey to Hungary’ Meeting with poor people and refugees in St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church
• 29 April 2023 – Apostolic Journey to Hungary’ Visit to the Children of the ‘Blessed László Batthyány-Strattmann’ Institute
• 30 April 2023 – Apostolic Journey to Hungary’ Meeting with the Academic and Cultural World at the Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics of the Catholic University ‘Péter Pázmány’

Papal Tweets

• “Faith was passed down from generation to generation through life, through witnesses who brought the flame of the Gospel, the joy of the saving love of Jesus, and the hope of his promise. Faith grows through witness.” @Pontifex, 27 April 2023
• “We are called to be open to the times in which we live, with their changes and challenges. We are called to sow the seeds of the Gospel, to prune the dead branches of evil and to bear fruit. #ApostolicJourney” @Pontifex, 28 April 2023
• “St. Stephen of #Hungary was an intrepid evangelizer who listened and dialogued with everyone, and cared for the poor. This is the Church we dream of: a Church able to listen, dialogue and care for the most vulnerable; a welcoming Church that courageously brings the Gospel to all.” @Pontifex, 28 April 2023
• “Those who profess to be Christian are called to bear witness and walk with everyone to cultivate a humanism inspired by the Gospel which moves along two fundamental tracks: acknowledging that we are beloved children of the Father, and loving one another as brothers and sisters.” @Pontifex, 28 April 2023
• “#Peace will never come by pursuing individual strategic interests, but only from policies capable of looking to the bigger picture and the development of all: policies attentive to individuals, the poor and the future, and not merely to power, profit and the present.” @Pontifex, 28 April 2023
• “Those who “bind themselves to God”, as did Sts Francis of Assisi and Elizabeth of #Hungary did, become charitable to the poor. For “he who does not love his brother whom sees, cannot love God whom he has not seen” (1 Jn 4:20). #ApostolicJourney Speech” @Pontifex, 29 April 2023
• “I encourage you to speak the language of #charity always. Whenever you strive to bring bread to the hungry, the Lord makes joy blossom and your lives are fragrant with the love you give. #ApostolicJourney #Hungary” @Pontifex, 29 April 2023
• “When you pray, don’t be afraid to bring everything going on inside you to Jesus: emotions, fears, problems, expectations, memories, hopes. Prayer is dialogue. Prayer is life. #ApostolicJourney #Hungary” @Pontifex, 29 April 2023
• “Each of us is precious to Jesus. Remember that no one can take your place in the history of the Church and the world. No one else can do what only you can do. So let’s help each other to believe that we are loved and precious, that we are made for great things! #ApostolicJourney” @Pontifex, 29 April 2023
• “I thank the beloved Hungarian people for their welcome and the affection I have experienced in these days. I entrust all Hungarians to Our Lady. Grateful for these days, I keep you in my heart and ask you to pray for me. Isten áld meg a magyart!” @Pontifex, 30 April 2023
• “Self-knowledge means to be able to recognize our limitations and to curb the presumption of self-sufficiency. This proves beneficial because,once we realize that we are creatures, we become creative. We learn to immerse ourselves in the world instead of attempting to dominate it.” @Pontifex, 30 April 2023
• “In our words, deeds and daily activities, let’s try to be like Jesus: an open door that never shuts in anyone’s face, a door that allows everyone to enter and experience the beauty of the Lord’s love and forgiveness. #ApostolicJourney” @Pontifex, 30 April 2023
• “Queen of Peace, instil in the hearts of peoples and their leaders the desire to build peace and to give the younger generations a future of hope, not war, a future full of cradles not tombs, a world of brothers and sisters, not walls and barricades. https://t.co/wpzoNWCCLg Image” @Pontifex, 30 April 2023
• “How sad and painful it is to see closed doors: the closed doors of our selfishness, of our indifference towards those who are suffering, towards those who are foreigners, different, the migrant, the poor. Let’s open those doors, please! PyPj Homily” @Pontifex, 30 April 2023
• “The gift of vocation is like a divine seed that springs up in the soil of our lives, opens our hearts to God and to others, so that we can share the treasure we have found. God calls us in love and we, in gratitude, respond to Him in love. #Vocations xMakr Message” @Pontifex, 30 April 2023
• “Jesus the Good Shepherd calls us by name and takes care of us with infinite tenderness. He is the door, and the one who enters through Him has eternal life. He is our future, a future of “life in abundance” (Jn 10:10). Therefore, let us never get discouraged. #ApostolicJourney” @Pontifex, 30 April 2023
• “Saint Joseph teaches us that, in the midst of life’s tempests, we must never be afraid to let the Lord steer our course.” @Pontifex, 1 May 2023
• “Let us #PrayTogether that ecclesial movements and groups may daily rediscover their mission, an evangelizing mission, and that they place their own charisms at the service of the world’s needs.
  #PrayerIntention #ClickToPray Video” @Pontifex, 2 May 2023

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This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week, from 19 April 2023 to 30 April 2023.

General Audiences

• 19 April 2023 – General Audience – Catechesis. The passion for evangelization’ the apostolic zeal of the believer. 9. Witnesses’ the martyrs
• 26 April 2023 – General Audience – The passion for evangelization’ the apostolic zeal of the believer. 2. Witnesses’ monasticism and the power of intercession. Gregory of Narek

Messages

• 30 April 2023 – Message for the 60th World Day of Prayer for Vocations 2023

Regina Caeli

• 23 April 2023 – Regina Caeli

Speeches

• 20 April 2023 – To a Delegation of ‘Interfaith Leaders from Greater Manchester’ (Great Britain)
• 20 April 2023 – To members of the Pontifical Biblical Commission
• 21 April 2023 – To the members of the ‘Papal Foundation’
• 22 April 2023 – To the Participants in the Plenary Assembly of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life
• 22 April 2023 – To the Participants in the pilgrimage of thanksgiving for the Beatification of Armida Barelli
• 26 April 2023 – To Members of the ‘Catholic Extension Society’

Papal Tweets

• “Let us #PrayTogether that we may never tire of bearing witness to the Gospel, even in times of tribulation. May all the martyr saints be seeds of peace among peoples for a more humane and fraternal world, as we await the full manifestation of the Kingdom of Heaven.” @Pontifex, 19 April 2023
• “Let us persevere in our closeness in prayer for dear and distressed #Ukraine, which continues to endure terrible suffering. Let us #PrayTogether.” @Pontifex, 19 April 2023
• “God’s gaze never stops with our past filled of errors, but looks with infinite confidence at what we can become.” @Pontifex, 20 April 2023
• “Praising God is like breathing pure oxygen: it purifies the soul, it makes you look far ahead, it does not leave you imprisoned in the difficult and dark moment of hardship.” @Pontifex, 21 April 2023
• “The Book of Genesis tells us that the Lord entrusted human beings with the responsibility of being stewards of creation (Gen 2:15). Care for the Earth, then, is a moral obligation for all men and women as children of God. #EarthDay @EarthDay” @Pontifex, 22 April 2023
• “The #GospelOfToday (Lk 24: 13–35) invites us to tell Jesus everything, sincerely, without fear of saying the wrong thing. The Lord is happy whenever we open ourselves to Him; only in this way can He take us by the hand, accompany us and make our hearts burn again.” @Pontifex, 23 April 2023
• “Next Friday I will go to Budapest, in Hungary. It will be a journey to the centre of Europe, over which the icy winds of war continue to blow, while the displacement of so many people puts urgent humanitarian questions on the agenda.” @Pontifex, 23 April 2023
• “Dear Hungarian brothers and sisters, I know you are making great efforts to prepare for my arrival: I thank you from my heart. And I ask you all to accompany me with your prayers.” @Pontifex, 23 April 2023
• “Using weapons to resolve conflicts is a sign of weakness and fragility. Negotiation, proceeding in mediation, and conciliation require courage. #Peace” @Pontifex, 24 April 2023
• “We discover we are children of God at the moment we discover we are brothers and sisters, children of the same Father. This is why it is essential to be part of a journeying community. No one goes to the Lord alone.” @Pontifex, 25 April 2023
• “This year, for the World Day of Prayer for #Vocations, I would ask you, in your reflection and prayer, to take as your guide the theme “Vocation: Grace and Mission”. xLCuT Message” @Pontifex, 26 April 2023
• “Monks and nuns are the beating heart of the proclamation of the Gospel: their prayer is oxygen for all the members of the Body of Christ, the invisible force that sustains the mission. #GeneralAudience” @Pontifex, 26 April 2023

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This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week, from 12 April 2023 to 18 April 2023.

General Audiences

• 12 April 2023 – General Audience – Catechesis. The passion for evangelization’ the apostolic zeal of the believer. 9. Witnesses’ Saint Paul. 2

Regina Caeli

• 16 April 2023 – Regina Caeli

Speeches

• 14 April 2023 – To the Directors and Staff of ITA Airways
• 14 April 2023 – To a Delegation of Diocesan Oblate Brothers
• 15 April 2023 – To the Members of the ‘Fundación Madre de la Esperanza de Talavera de la Reina’, of Toledo (Spain)
• 15 April 2023 – To the Pilgrimage of the Diocese of Crema (Italy)
• 17 April 2023 – To a Delegation of the Community of the Beatitudes

Papal Tweets

• “Brothers and sisters, filled with the joy of the Risen Christ, let us ask the grace of being a Church ”moving out“, the community of missionary disciples taking initiative and committed to proclaim the Gospel of peace and mercy. #GeneralAudience #Easter” @Pontifex, 12 April 2023
• “60 years ago, St. John XXIII addressed the Encyclical ”Pacem in terris“ to the Church and to the world. I invite everyone to read it, because it is more timely than ever. And I pray that the heads of nations might allow it to inspire projects and decisions yIneqi Vatican” @Pontifex, 12 April 2023
• “Our wounds can be passages, openings that, in imitating the wounds of the Lord, allow God’s mercy to enter. His grace changes our lives and makes us artisans of #peace and reconciliation.” @Pontifex, 13 April 2023
• “Let us welcome the grace of Christ’s Resurrection! Let us be renewed by God’s mercy. Let us allow the power of His love to transform our lives too. And let us become agents of this mercy so justice and peace can flourish in the world.” @Pontifex, 14 April 2023
• “Today, with the world torn always more by war, distancing itself from God, we have all the more need of the Father’s mercy. Let us #PrayTogether #DivineMercy” @Pontifex, 15 April 2023
• “On this Divine Mercy Sunday, certain of interpreting the feelings of the faithful throughout the world, I direct a grateful thought to the memory of Saint John Paul II, the object of offensive and unfounded inferences these past few days.” @Pontifex, 16 April 2023
• “Let us #PrayTogether for the victims of war, which continue to sow death in horrific ways, asking God that the world might never more have to experience the shock of violent death by the human hand, but the awe of the life that He gives and renews with His grace!” @Pontifex, 16 April 2023
• “I express my closeness to all our brothers and sisters who are celebrating Easter today. Dear brothers and sisters, may the Risen Lord be with you and fill you with His Holy Spirit! Happy Easter to all of you!” @Pontifex, 16 April 2023
• “The wounds of the risen Jesus are the signs of the Love that overcomes hatred, of the Pardon that disarms revenge, of the Life that conquers death. #GospelOfTheDay (Jn 20:19–3) #DivineMercy” @Pontifex, 16 April 2023
• “If you have dreams of true glory, not the glory of this passing world, but of the glory of God, this is the path to follow: the works of #mercy give glory to God more than any other thing.” @Pontifex, 17 April 2023
• “Our hope is called Jesus. He is alive and evil has no more power over Him. Failure cannot prevent us from beginning again, and death becomes the passage to the beginning of a new life. #Easter” @Pontifex, 18 April 2023

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This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week, from 5 April 2023 to 11 April 2023.

General Audiences

• 5 April 2023 – General Audience – Catechesis. ‘The Crucifix, well-spring of hope’

Homilies

• 6 April 2023 – Holy Chrism Mass
• 6 April 2023 – Mass of the Lord’s Supper (Prison for Minors ‘Casal del Marmo’, Rome)
• 8 April 2023 – Easter Vigil in the Holy Night of Easter

Messages

• 9 April 2023 – ‘Urbi et Orbi’ – Easter 2023

Regina Caeli

• 10 April 2023 – Regina Caeli, Easter Monday

Papal Tweets

• “During these holy days, let’s draw near the Crucified One. Let’s place ourselves before him, stripped, to take an honest look at ourselves, removing whatever is superfluous. Let’s look at him, wounded, and place our wounds in his. Let’s let Jesus regenerate hope in us. #HolyWeek” @Pontifex, 5 April 2023
• “Without the Lord’s Spirit, there can be no Christian life. Without his anointing, there can be no holiness. It is fitting that today, on the birthday of the priesthood, we acknowledge that He is at the origin of the ministry, the life and vitality of every Pastor. #HolyThursday” @Pontifex, 6 April 2023
• “On the cross, Jesus refused to yield to despair, but he prayed and entrusted Himself to the Father. In His abandonment, he continued to love and forgive His crucifiers. Jesus, in His abandonment, asks us to see and have a heart for the many ”abandoned Christs“.” @Pontifex, 7 April 2023
• “#ViaCrucis #GoodFriday U Image” @Pontifex, 7 April 2023
• “Today the power of Easter calls you to roll away every stone of disappointment and mistrust. The Lord is an expert in rolling back the stones of sin and fear. He wants to illuminate your sacred memory, your most beautiful memory, to make you relive your first encounter with him.” @Pontifex, 8 April 2023
• “Let us revive the beauty of that moment when we realized that he is alive and we made him the Lord of our lives. Let us return to Galilee. Let each of us return to his or her own Galilee, to the place where we first encountered him. Let us rise to new life!” @Pontifex, 8 April 2023
• “Let us make haste to surmount our conflicts and divisions, and to open our hearts to those in greatest need. Let us hasten to pursue paths of peace and fraternity.” @Pontifex, 9 April 2023
• “To rise again, to start anew, to take up the journey, we always need to return to Galilee, that is, to go back to the living, concrete and palpable memory of our first encounter with him.” @Pontifex, 9 April 2023
• “#Easter yeultk Image” @Pontifex, 9 April 2023
• “Jesus, the Living One, is with us, forever. Let the Church and the world rejoice, for today our hopes no longer come up against the wall of death, for the Lord has built us a bridge to life.” @Pontifex, 9 April 2023
• “May we allow ourselves to experience amazement at the joyful proclamation of Easter, at the light that illumines the darkness and the gloom in which, all too often, our world finds itself enveloped.” @Pontifex, 9 April 2023
• “The #GospelOfToday lets us relive the women’s encounter with the Risen Jesus on Easter morning. Jesus meets them while they are going to announce him. This is beautiful: when we proclaim the Lord, the Lord comes to us. #Easter” @Pontifex, 10 April 2023
• “When hope is spent and we feel loneliness in our hearts, inner weariness, the torment of sin, the fear of failure, let us return to Jesus. For He is the only one who always defeats death and always renews our life. #Easter” @Pontifex, 11 April 2023

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This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week, from 30 March 2023 to 4 April 2023.

Angelus

• 2 April 2023 – Angelus

Apostolic Letter

• 2 April 2023 – Apostolic Letter issued ‘Motu Proprio’ of the Supreme Pontiff Francis modifying the terms of recourse of a member dismissed from an Institute of Consecrated Life

Homilies

• 2 April 2023 – Palm Sunday

Speeches

• 3 April 2023 – To Directors and employees of the National Institute for Social Security (Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Sociale – INPS),

Papal Tweets

• “Let us #PrayTogether for a more widespread culture of non-violence, that will progress when countries and citizens alike resort less and less to the use of arms. #PrayerIntention #ClickToPray Video” @Pontifex, 30 March 2023
• “I am touched by the many messages received in these hours and I express my gratitude for the closeness and prayer.” @Pontifex, 30 March 2023
• “When experienced with faith, the trials and difficulties of life serve to purify our hearts, making them humbler and thus more and more open to God. #Lent” @Pontifex, 31 March 2023
• “Living #HolyWeek means entering ever more deeply into God’s logic, into the logic of the Cross, which is not primarily that of suffering and death, but rather that of love and of the gift of self that brings life.” @Pontifex, 1 April 2023
• “I thank everyone for their closeness and prayer. I entrust the sick to Mary, especially the youngest, like those I met in the oncology ward at Gemelli. Let us pray for those who suffer the loss of dear ones and for those who work in hospitals. It takes courage. I admire them. https://t.co/WBUBDEmzdW Image” @Pontifex, 1 April 2023
• “On the cross, Christ put Himself in solidarity with us so that each of us can say: In my failures, in my desolation, when I feel betrayed and abandoned, You are there, Jesus. When I feel I can’t take it anymore, you are with me. In all my unanswered “why’s”, you are with me.” @Pontifex, 2 April 2023
• ““My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Mt 27:46). These are the words that bring us to the very heart of Christ’s passion, the culmination of the sufferings He bore to save us. #PalmSunday” @Pontifex, 2 April 2023
• “Abandoned, Christ stirs us to seek and love Him in the abandoned. For they are not only people in need, but He is there – Jesus abandoned – the One who saved us by descending to the depths of our human condition. #PalmSunday” @Pontifex, 2 April 2023
• “God chose to enter into our human history the most difficult way possible: the cross. This way, no one could ever be so desperate and not to be able to find Him, even in the midst of anguish and abandonment. God arrived in the very place we didn’t think He could be.” @Pontifex, 3 April 2023
• “During these days of Holy Week, let us #PrayTogether more intensely for the war-torn people of Ukrainia, and for all peoples experiencing war, that with God’s help, paths of peace might be opened.” @Pontifex, 3 April 2023
• “From the Cross forgiveness poured forth and fraternal love was reborn: the Cross makes us brothers and sisters. #HolyWeek” @Pontifex, 4 April 2023

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