Caring for each person, the Pope's message for the World Day of the Sick 2027

The role of the community in caring for each person, and the fact that “every Christian community, together with civil society, is called to take charge of the frailties and sufferings of people,” is the main message of Pope Leo XIV for the World Day of the Sick 2027., has reported the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.

In the Gospel passage from St. Luke – ”They lowered him on a stretcher before Jesus” (cf. Lk 5:19) – “a community organizes itself to bring those who suffer to the sources of physical and spiritual healing. Inscribed at the baptismal root of our vocation is the commandment of mutual love: love your neighbor, take care of him,” the Pope points out.

To open paths of closeness and hope

“Like the friends of the paralytic, parishes and Christian communities are called to take care of those who are alone, elderly or suffering, opening paths of closeness and hope.”.

Thus concludes the brief text released by the Vatican Dicastery whose Prefect is Sister Alessandra Smerilli HMA.

World Day of the Sick 2027 will take place, as usual, on February 11th of next year, the feast day of the Virgin of Lourdes.