Pope Leo XIV Entrusts His Ministry to Our Lady of Montserrat
The pope entrusted his ministry to the Virgin of Montserrat and called for love to replace violence as about 7,000 people attended.
- On Wednesday, June 10, 2026, Pope Leo XIV visited the Abbey of Our Lady of Montserrat in Catalonia, greeting around 7,000 faithful gathered in the Basilica and surrounding areas from the popemobile.
- Founded 1000 years ago, the Benedictine monastery celebrated its founding anniversary in 2025 and houses the 12th-century image of Our Lady of Montserrat, patron saint of Catalonia.
- Pope Leo XIV insisted that "Jesus shows us the path of mercy, reconciliation, truth and gentleness," urging believers to discard the "armour" of hidden violence like criticism that humiliates.
- Addressing the crowd in Spanish and Catalan, the Pope prayed for his Petrine ministry and asked Mary to teach the faithful to renounce "hurtful words, hasty judgment, gossip and slander."
- Following his Catalonia visit, the Pope expressed gratitude for the "beautiful expression of faith" across Spain and confirmed upcoming travel to the Canary Islands after stops in Madrid and Barcelona.
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The Holy Father has entrusted the Moreneta with her Petrine ministry.
Pope Leo XIV entrusts his ministry to Our Lady of Montserrat
MONTSERRAT, Spain (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV made a pilgrimage June 10 to the medieval mountain monastery of Montserrat, entrusting his pontificate and the Church’s mission to Our Lady of Montserrat, the beloved Black Madonna known to Catalans as “La Moreneta,” on his second day in Barcelona. “I am pleased to be able to come to the feet of Our Lady of Montserrat to entrust to her, with full confidence in her maternal intercession, my Petrine mini…
This is the first time I have seen this Pope. I feel wonderfully happy and very excited. The first and last time I saw a Pope was John Paul II in Venezuela, he was very small, and now to Pope Leon, imagine, already with age and awareness of what he represents. My emotion is enormous. Thus sums up Magali, a 60-year-old Venezuelan resident of Catalonia for nine months, the feeling that Montserrat has traveled this Wednesday. Continue reading....
Pope Leo XIV called this Wednesday in his speech at the Abbey of Montserrat after the prayer of the Rosary to renounce "the hurtful words, the immediate trial, the murmuring and the slander" to learn to "custify and cultivate love in the family, among friends, in the workplace on social networks, in political debates."In a speech in which he has again alternated Catalan and Spanish, he asked to follow Jesus' example to "display the violence that…
MONSTERRAT. – On the fifth day of his visit to Spain, Leon XIV became this Wednesday the second Pontiff, after St. John Paul II in 1982, to make a pilgrimage to the Benedictine Abbey of Montserrat, where the homonymous shrine is located. From this overwhelming place, nestled in the mountain, surrounded by nature and with spectacular views of the valley, he again launched a message of reconciliation and denounced “the violence that hides in the w…
Leon XIV was entrusted this Wednesday to the Virgin of Monteserrat, patron saint of the Spanish region of Catalonia, and asked to cultivate love in political debates, in social networks and in all relations with others.
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