Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Sunday with over 1.5 million pilgrims in a vast sun-drenched field, wrapping up an emotionally charged trip to Poland with some choice technological metaphors.
Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Sunday with over 1.5 million pilgrims in a vast sun-drenched field, wrapping up an emotionally charged trip to Poland with some choice technological metaphors.
In a nod to today’s Internet-dominated world, Pope Francis urged the congregation, who had travelled to Poland from all over the world, to “download the best link of all, that of a heart which sees and transmits goodness without growing weary”.
“Make the Gospel your own, so that it can serve as a satnav for you on the highways of life,” he said during the high spirited service. Even the music was given the techno treatment, with youngsters, nuns and even some bishops leaping and twirling to hymns beefed up with a thumping dance beat.
High-spirited teenagers, boy scouts, priests and families had camped under the stars in the vast “Campus Misericordiae” (Field of Mercy) near the city of Krakow ahead of the final mass of a week-long Catholic fest. He encouraged the faithful to be dreamers who believe “in a new humanity”.
