Overview

• He visited about twenty residents aged 80 to 101 at the Santa Marta retirement home, sharing religious songs, smiles and embraces with both the elderly and accompanying nuns.
• In his Angelus address from Castel Gandolfo’s Plaza de la Libertad, he urged the faithful to slow their pace and open themselves to encounters with God, others and themselves.
• Drawing on the Martha and Mary Gospel, he cautioned against being absorbed by tasks and emphasized that true hospitality involves contemplative reception of Jesus, whom he said comes to serve us in every Eucharist.
• He affirmed that age does not matter for encountering Christ, stating that Jesus makes himself our guest and calls all believers to bear witness regardless of their stage in life.
• After 17 days at his summer residence, he returned to the Vatican to prepare for the Jubilee of Youth in late July and consider forthcoming changes to his governing team.