Pope Leo has spent the last Sunday of his summer holiday celebrating Mass for local homeless people and sharing lunch with them.
At 9.30 a.m. on Sunday 17 August, the Holy Father arrived at the Shrine of Santa Maria della Rotonda in Albano, a medieval Marian sanctuary founded by Eastern-rite religious fleeing iconoclasm.
He offered Holy Mass for more than one hundred people cared for by the local branch of Caritas, together with the volunteers who support them.
In his homily he said that a “fire of charity” had brought them together and urged the faithful “not to distinguish between those who assist and those who are assisted, between those who seem to give and those who seem to receive, between those who appear poor and those who feel they have something to offer in terms of time, skills, and help.”
