5 inspirational messages the Pope has sent in the Holy Week

Tomorrow is Holy Saturday, also called "the Saturday of Light", the last day of the Holy Week. It commemorates Jesus Christ's descent into hell (Harrowing of Hell) as his body lay in the tomb.

Since the beginning of the week, Pope Francis has commemorated Jesus Christ's final days with Christians both in acts, such as the washing of the feet of twelve Christians on Holy Thursday and in words.

At the start of the week, he had just come out of hospice for bronchitis treatment but was in good spirits to officiate Palm Sunday when Jesus Christ entered Jerusalem.

Let's take a look at some of his Holy Week messages this year.

"I'm still alive you know," he said on Palm Sunday.

"God chose to enter into our human history the most difficult way possible: the cross. This way, no one could ever be so desperate and not be able to find Him, even in the midst of anguish and abandonment. God arrived in the very place we didn't think He could be."

"On the cross, Jesus refused to yield to despair, but he prayed and entrusted Himself to the Father. In His abandonment, he continued to love and forgive His crucifiers. Jesus, in His abandonment, asks us to see and have a heart for the many 'abandoned Christs'."

"During these holy days, let’s draw near the Crucified One. Let’s place ourselves before him, stripped, to take an honest look at ourselves, removing whatever is superfluous. Let’s look at him, wounded, and place our wounds in his. Let’s let Jesus regenerate hope in us."

"On the cross, Christ put Himself in solidarity with us so that each of us can say: In my failures, in my desolation, when I feel betrayed and abandoned, You are there, Jesus. When I feel I can’t take it anymore, you are with me. In all my unanswered “why's”, you are with me."