“It would seem almost ironic, a mockery! He who does not have a stone on which to rest his head, he who has been rejected by his people, condemned to death, he who ‘before whom one covers his face so as not to see’, addresses all of humanity, of all places and of all times, and says ‘Come to me all of you and I will give you relief!'”
“Come you old people, sick and alone, you who the world lets die in poverty, hunger, under bombs or in the sea, you who because of your faith in me, or because of your fight for freedom, languish in a cell from prison, come women victims of violence. In short, everyone, without excluding anyone,” she expressed.
Adoration of the Holy Cross on Good Friday in the Vatican
After the universal prayer, the Adoration of the Holy Cross began. Pope Francis was the first to contemplate the cross with Christ crucified to worship him and kiss him on the knee.