“We allow the cross hanging on the wall at home, or that small one we wear around our neck, to be a sign of our desire to be united with Christ,” he said.
At the end of the Angelus, he prayed for victims of the typhoon in the Philippines and countries going through difficult moments.
“They remind us that old age is a gift,” he said during the Angelus prayer.
He had to cancel this tradition because of the pandemic.