Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for Lent 2025 LENT 2025Let us journey together in hopeDear brothers and sisters, We begin our annual pilgrimage of Lent in faith and hope with the penitential rite of the imposition of ashes. The Church, our mother and teacher,...

Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for Lent 2024 LENT 2024 Through the Desert God Leads us to FreedomDear brothers and sisters! When our God reveals himself, his message is always one of freedom: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out...

Full text of Pope Francis’ Urbi et Orbi blessing for Easter 2023

Pope Francis’ message for Lent 2023Pope Francis celebrates Ash Wednesday Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica Feb. 17, 2021. VATICAN MEDIA Dear brothers and sisters, The Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke all recount the episode of the Transfiguration of Jesus. There we see...

Message of Pope Francis for Lent 2022Pope Francis presides at the Stations of the Cross outside St. Peter’s Basilica on Good Friday evening, April 10, 2020. VATICAN MEDIA“Let us not grow tired of doing good, for in due time we shall reap our harvest,if we do not give...

Message of Pope Francis for Lent 2021Pope Francis presides at the Stations of the Cross outside St. Peter’s Basilica on Good Friday evening, April 10, 2020. VATICAN MEDIALent: a Time for Renewing Faith, Hope and Love “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem” (Mt 20:18)...

“We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God” (2 Cor 5:20)

The Lenten season, which begins today, Ash Wednesday, is a time of mercy. It is an acceptable time (cf. 2 Cor 6, 2) to allow ourselves to be reconciled and to be renewed by the tenderness of the Father.

“For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God” (Rm 8: 19)