Celebrating Mass on 16 November 2025 to mark the Jubilee of the Poor, in his homily the Pope urged leaders of nations to listen to the cry of the poorest, saying they remind us that there can be no peace without justice:
Dear brothers and sisters,
The last Sundays of the liturgical year invite us to look to the ultimate end of history. In the first reading, the prophet Malachi sees the arrival of the “day of the Lord” as the beginning of a new era.
It is described as God’s time, when, like a dawn that brings forth the sun of righteousness, the hopes of the poor and the humble will receive a final and definitive answer from the Lord, and the work of the wicked and their injustice, especially against the defenceless and the poor, will be eradicated and burned like straw.
