Despite being discharged from the hospital just a day prior, Pope Francis presided over an outdoor Palm Sunday Mass in a brisk St. Peter's Square, telling believers to embrace those who feel abandoned like Jesus did on the cross, the Crux website reports today (April 2, 2023).
Francis led Sunday's Mass on a chair in front of the main altar,while the vice dean of the Vatican's College of Cardinals, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, celebrated at the altar.
By now, this mode of leading papal liturgies has become customary for the 86-year-old Francis, who suffers from sciatica and chronic knee pain which, for the past year, has left him confined to a wheelchair or the use of a cane.
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