Singer Andrea Bocelli Reveals He Felt "Divine Providence" at the Laudato Si Event and that Pope Leo XIV is a "beacon to guide us"
Singer Andrea Bocelli joined Pope Leo XIV at the Borgo Laudato Si’ Village inauguration. This environmental area is located in Castel Gandolfo and was envisioned by Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical “On Care for Our Common Home.” The blind Italian tenor Bocelli, along with his son Matteo, sang an interpretation of “Dolce è Sentire” (“It’s Sweet to Feel”) based on St. Francis’ “Canticle of the Sun.” Bocelli, his wife, daughter, and son, met with the pope at the event (pictured above).
The singer recently commented on his social media on how the event touched him:
It was deeply moving to witness firsthand the tangible expression of what Pope Francis so powerfully advocated in his encyclical Laudato Si’: the urgent need for an ecological conversion for our common earthly home.
A decade later, the project bearing the same name on the grounds of Castel Gandolfo stands as a perfect example of this vision — a true miracle of goodwill, where the splendor of nature and human endeavor meet: “a creature among creatures,” as Pope Leo XIV underlined, entrusted with the sacred duty of care (for nature “cannot but speak to us of God”).
The joy of witnessing the inauguration of the Laudato Si’ Village — a virtuous center of advanced education, inclusion, hospitality, and sustainability — was made even greater by the honor of singing before the Holy Father, a man of God and a figure of the highest stature, both spiritual and intellectual.
When, together with my son Matteo, we intoned Dolce Sentire — a prayer that evokes the sacredness and harmony of creation — I felt, as I had not in a long time, the strength of Divine Providence and a renewed serenity in celebrating the universal Church, which in Pope Leo XIV has found a new and steadfast Shepherd, a beacon to guide us through these complex times.
It was deeply moving to witness firsthand the tangible expression of what Pope Francis so powerfully advocated in his encyclical Laudato Si’: the urgent need for an ecological conversion for our common earthly home.
A decade later, the project bearing the same name on the grounds of Castel Gandolfo stands as a perfect example of this vision — a true miracle of goodwill, where the splendor of nature and human endeavor meet: “a creature among creatures,” as Pope Leo XIV underlined, entrusted with the sacred duty of care (for nature “cannot but speak to us of God”).
The joy of witnessing the inauguration of the Laudato Si’ Village — a virtuous center of advanced education, inclusion, hospitality, and sustainability — was made even greater by the honor of singing before the Holy Father, a man of God and a figure of the highest stature, both spiritual and intellectual.
When, together with my son Matteo, we intoned Dolce Sentire — a prayer that evokes the sacredness and harmony of creation — I felt, as I had not in a long time, the strength of Divine Providence and a renewed serenity in celebrating the universal Church, which in Pope Leo XIV has found a new and steadfast Shepherd, a beacon to guide us through these complex times.
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