Pope Francis makes a surprise appearance on Saint-Pierre square

While the pope’s voice was tense, she seemed stronger than when he briefly praised the crowds of the Gemelli Hospital in Rome on the day of his release.

The crowd roared while the 88 -year -old pontiff was brought back to the Place du Soleil for his surprise return today. Francis, who continues to receive oxygen, wore nasal tubes for the occasion.

According to the Vatican, before arriving at the square, Francis went to confessionne in the Saint-Pierre basilica and crossed the holy door for the year of the jubilee.

The Pope is currently in physical and motor therapy and his doctors have recently estimated that he will benefit from a recovery of 90% to 100% after his convalescence.

The traditional Pope’s Sunday blessing and homily were read by the Archbishop Rino Fisichella, organizer of the Holy Year who should bring some 30 million pilgrims to Rome. In the homily and the blessing read for him, Francis referred to his experience of the disease and addressed the patients who attended the service.

“At the moment of my life, I share a lot: the experience of infirmity, to feel weak, according to others for many things, requiring support,” said Francis. “It is not easy, but it is a school in which we learn every day to love and to let ourselves be loved, without demanding and without rejecting, without regretting, without despair, recognizing God and our brothers for the good that we receive, confident for what is to come.”

Francis also urged the faithful not to push the fragiles of their lives “as unfortunately a certain mentality does today. Do not destroy the pain of our environment. Let us rather make the opportunity to grow together, to cultivate hope.”

In the traditional Sunday blessing, he offered prayers for doctors, nurses and health workers “who are not always helped to work in inadequate conditions, sometimes the victims of the assault. Their mission is not easy and must be supported and respected”.

In his message written to accompany Angelus, published by the Vatican after mass, Pope Francis has thought about his personal experience of the disease.

“During my hospitalization, even now in my convalescence, I feel the” finger of God “and I feel his benevolent touch,” he wrote. “The day of the jubilee of the sick and the world of health care, I ask the Lord that this touch of his love reaches those who suffer and encourage those who take care of them.”

He expressed a deep gratitude for health professionals, “who are not always helped to work in adequate conditions and are sometimes even victims of aggression”, calling for “invested in treatment and research, so that health systems are inclusive and attentive to the most fragile and the poorest”.

Francis encouraged doctors and nurses to receive each patient as an opportunity to renew his sense of humanity. “The patient’s bed can become a holy place,” he said, “where charity burns indifference and gratitude nourishes hope,” said Francis.

Resist the temptation, said the pontiff, to marginalize and to forget those who are old, sick or weighed down by the difficulties of life. “Let’s not banish the suffering of our environment,” he said. “Let’s not exclude those who are fragile.” Instead, we must allow the love of God – paid in our hearts – to even transform suffering into a space of communion and growth.

The Pope also renewed his call for peace in the world, urging the international community to act urgently in places devastated by the war.

“Let the weapons be reduced to silence and that the dialogue resumes; let all the hostages be released and the help provided to the population,” he said, appointing Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, South-Soudan, Congo, Myanmar and Haiti among the suffering regions.

The Associated Press and the New OSVs contributed to this article.