Cookie Policy The portal Osservatore Romano uses technical or similar cookies to make navigation easier and guarantee the use of the services. Furthermore, technical and analysis cookies from third parties may be used. If you want to know more click here. By closing this banner you consent to the use of cookies. I AGREE Pope Francis celebrates Mass at the Church of Santo Spirito in Sassia on the Second Sunday of Easter Merciful because they have received mercy 16 April 2021 It is difficult to become “merciful” without the awareness of having first “received mercy”: Pope Francis said this during the Mass celebrated at the Church of Santo Spirito in Sassia on Sunday morning, 11 April, the Second Sunday of Easter and Feast of Divine Mercy. Concelebrating with the Pontiff were Archbishop Rino Fisichella, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization, Monsignor Jozef Bart, rector of the church, and several Missionaries of Mercy representing the more than 1,000 instituted during the Extraordinary Jubilee held between 2015 and 2016. Among those present — whom the Pope greeted personally at the end of the Mass — a group of inmates from three different Roman prisons, some Hospitaller Sisters of Mercy, a representation of nurses from the nearby hospital of Santo Spirito in Sassia, some people with disabilities, a family of migrants from Argentina, a group of young refugees from Syria, Nigeria and Egypt: two Egyptian people belonging to the Coptic Church and a Syrian Caritas volunteer belonging to the Syrian Catholic Church. The readings were proclaimed by a seminarian instituted lector, while the liturgical service was served by young people from a parish on the outskirts of Rome. Also present were volunteers from the dicastery of the New Evangelization — in charge of organizing the celebration — which has jurisdiction over everything related to the spirituality of Divine Mercy. Volunteers from the National Carabinieri Association also collaborated. The following is the English text of the Pope’s homily.