After today’s catechesis the Pope greeted the pilgrims from different countries present in St. Peter’s Square, and recalled that tomorrow we celebrate the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. He invited those present, by her intercession, to wonder at the works of mercy that Jesus performs in our lives so as to convert and to become workers of mercy ourselves.

Addressing in particular the young, the sick and newly-weds, he proposed to them the example of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, canonised last Sunday. “Dear young people”, he said, “become, like her, workers of mercy; dear sick people, feel her compassionate closeness especially at the hour of the cross; dear newly-weds, invoke her so that care for and attention to the weakest may never be lacking in your families”.