The Pope presides over Holy Mass at the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels, with a homily from the Holy Father. Before the final blessing, a young person thanks the Pope for the meeting. The celebration concludes with the missionary mandate, a symbolic sending forth calling young Europeans to bring the freshness of the Gospel and Franciscan joy back to their homelands. At 12:00 PM the Holy Father leaves the Basilica; at 12:15 PM he bids farewell to the authorities at the helicopter, and at 12:45 PM he lands at the Vatican heliport. In his homily, commenting on the Gospel of the Transfiguration in light of Franciscan spirituality, the Pope states that "the reason St. Francis, eight hundred years after his death, still attracts us lies in the magnificent humanity that led him to abandon well-trodden paths," also recalling the "even more impressive" choice of St. Clare, who wished to live as free as the Franciscan friars: an expression, for the Pope, of "the energy of Christianity, that of its beginnings and its many new beginnings." According to the friars' memory, this is the first time a Roman Pontiff has presided over a Eucharistic celebration in the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels.