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Homily for Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square

Pope Francis' homily at the Mass for Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord on 20 March 2016.

From the Church and the Pope

Family Traditions: The Annual "Crespillos"

Knowing how to be creative with what one has at home: perhaps this example could serve as inspiration. Every year on the "Friday of Sorrows" (the Friday before Palm Sunday), the mother of Saint Josemaría, Dolores Escrivá, used to prepare a special dessert called "crespillos".​ It was a simple dessert that she ​would only make on that day, and thus the family would look forward to it. The recipe is easy to follow and inexpensive, and makes for a tasty and original dessert for your family.

News

The "Our Father" in the Language Christ Spoke

Kristian, Swarin, Sidra, Sarah and Soleen, five young Iraqis, were forced with their parents to abandon the Iraqi city of Karakosh. On arriving in France, some girls in a Grenoble youth club helped them to integrate in their new homeland.

Recent News

Sharing Others' Feelings

Empathy, the ability to share in other people's feelings, is very important for learning to love as Christ did. A new article in the series on forging a Christian personality.

Fostering Interior Life

Just Start (1): Work for Free

First video in the series "Just Start. Ways to Help People." Produced in the Jubilee Year of Mercy, these videos seek to help make Pope Francis' desire a reality: that we Christians may contemplate God’s mercy and adopt it as our lifestyle.

Social initiatives

Courtship Makes Sense

A new article in the series on the meaning of human love. "Learning to communicate joys, gratitude, and even (or especially) learning to constructively put across feelings of anger and hurt make courtship happy and fruitful and will stand a future marriage in good stead."

Fostering Interior Life

I Came Across Her Prayer Card

I am very impressed with Dora. About three weeks ago, I came across her prayer card in a chapel and I said to myself, "If I feel like I'm 'in a hole' for how bad I feel, then what could be better than to pray to Dora 'del Hoyo' (Spanish for 'of the hole')." I even started to use her name as a password, to remind myself to pray to her.

Favors

"Let us restore Sacrament of Reconciliation to the center"

In his March 4 address to the Apostolic Penitentiary Pope Francis said: "Let us restore to the center (and not only in this Jubilee Year) the Sacrament of Reconciliation, a true space of the Spirit."

From the Church and the Pope

Strengthening Families Around the World

John Keefe helps moderate a series of courses called Family Enrichment, assisting parents to form happy families and couples of all ages to strengthen their marriages.

Personal testimonies

Letter from the Prelate (March 2016)

The Prelate speaks about some of the spiritual works of mercy, especially spreading peace to others, and points to the example of Blessed Alvaro.

Pastoral Letters and Messages