February 11, world day of the patient: «Accompany in solitude”

"Accompany in solitude" It is the motto of the World Day of the Sick 2020. The Department of Health Pastoral, within the Pastoral Episcopal Commission, has edited the materials for this campaign that in Spain has two moments:

February 11, feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, is the day of the patient, worldwide.
The Church in Spain celebrates May 17 The patient's Easter.

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January 26, 2022

The Dicasterio for the Integral Human Promotion of the person proposes us as the topic for the world day of the patient of February 11: "Come to me all who are tired and overwhelmed, and I will relieve you" (Mt 11, 28). In Spain, welcoming this issue, «we propose to look at one of the causes of that fatigue that ask to be relieved: loneliness. Just by taking a view to the solitude data we realize that it has the dimensions of an authentic epidemic. According to the National Statistics Institute, it is estimated that in Spain there are 4.7 million unipersonal homes. Two million people over 65 live alone. More than 850.00 over 80 years live alone and many have mobility problems. Only these figures are a worrying fact. If we also add, among other forms of loneliness, that of those who are admitted to hospitals or that of families with members with a serious mental illness, for example, we discover the pressing of reflecting to seek the way of relieving so much loneliness, ”explains the presentation of materials.

"Accompany in solitude"

"Come to me all who are tired and overwhelmed, and I will relieve you" (Mt 11, 28)
World Patient Day (worldwide): February 11, 2020
Easter of the patient (in Spain): May 17, 2020

In this link you can see materials:
https://www.conferenciaepiscopal.es/materiales-de-la-jornada-del-enfermo-2020/
January 26, 2022

MESSAGE OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS
For the XXVIII World Day of the patient
February 11, 2020

Holy Father Francisco Speech World Day of the patient 2020.pdf