The Pope also delivered off-the-cuff remarks, about God's power to forgive, instead of reading a written speech.
It was the Pope's second official appearance before the general public since he was elected on Wednesday.
Earlier, he celebrated his first Sunday mass as pontiff in the Vatican's small and simple parish church.
Before he entered the church, chosen instead of St Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis greeted well-wishers who had lined up outside a nearby Vatican gate shouting "Francesco" - his name in Italian.
The former Argentine cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 76, was the surprise choice of cardinals meeting in Rome to pick the successor to the retiring Benedict XVI.
But correspondents say he has been quick to stamp his own style on the papacy.
Speaking on Saturday, Pope Francis emphasised that he wanted "a poor Church, for the poor".
At the end of the Sunday Mass, he waited outside the church and greeted people as they left, like a parish priest, asking many of them to, "pray for me".
Later, just a few minutes after delivering the Angelus, Pope Francis sent his first Tweet as pontiff, writing: "Dear friends, I thank you from my heart and I ask you to continue to pray for me. Pope Francis."
The new Pope's tone is very different to that of his predecessor, the BBC's Michael Hirst, in Rome, says.
His style is pastoral, he teaches by anecdote and speaks off the cuff with ease, in contrast to the theological sermonising of Pope Benedict, our correspondent says.
Benedict - now Pope emeritus Benedict - became the first pontiff in 600 years to abdicate last month when he said his age, 85, and health meant he could no longer continue in the job.
Source: BBC News
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