Visiting a cemetery on the feast of All Souls can evoke feelings of loss and sadness, but for Christians marking the feast, it is also an affirmation of hope in the Resurrection, Pope Francis has said.
Through his death on the cross, Jesus "opened for us the door of hope where we will contemplate God," the Pope said at an evening Mass amid the tombs of Rome's Prima Porta cemetery.
"The hope of the resurrection never fails us," the Pope said. "The first one who walked this path was Jesus. We will walk the path he has walked."
