After missing the Via Crucis in the Colosseum, Pope Francis led the Easter vigil in the Vatican. He participated in all the rites of the ceremony in St.
Peter's Basilica. In this Saturday's homily he asked "that despair be removed" for "the people destroyed by evil and hit by injustice" The Pope called them the "death stumbling blocks" and said that "they are all the experiences and situations that rob us of the enthusiasm and strength to move forward"