Milan, April 6 (LaPresse) – ‘Certainly illness is one of the most difficult and hardest trials of life, in which we touch with our own hands how fragile we are. It can make us feel like the people in exile, or like the woman in the Gospel: without hope for the future. But this is not the case. Even in these moments, God does not leave us alone, and if we abandon ourselves to him, right there where our strength fails, we can experience the consolation of his presence’. So said Pope Francis in his homily for the Jubilee Mass for the sick read but Mgr Rino Fisichella in St Peter's Square. ‘He himself, made man, wanted to share in everything our weakness and knows well what suffering is. Therefore to him we can say and entrust our pain, certain to find compassion, closeness and tenderness. But not only that. In his trusting love, in fact, he involves us so that we can become in our turn, for each other, ‘angels’, messengers of his presence, to the point that often, both for those who suffer and for those who assist, the bed of a sick person can be transformed into a ‘holy place’ of salvation and redemption,’ the Pope added.