Pope Francis has a big heart for the Filipinos, especially the victims of Typhoon Haiyan.... Fr. Jun --- Sunday Celebration at St. Peters Square: The final ceremony of the Year of Faith, with the Eucharistic celebration in Saint Peter’s Square at 10:30 am on Sunday, November 24, will take place with three signs, the first of which will be the exposition of the relics of Saint Peter. It is a special urn with the alleged bones of the Prince of the Apostles, which in 1971 was given in tribute to Paul VI. The urn, which was kept in the papal apartment throughout Benedict XVI’s pontificate, in past years was exposed every June 29, on the occasion of the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, but always inside the Pope’s private chapel: next Sunday, however, the Petrine relics will be exposed for the first time to the public. The second event will be the mentioned handing of the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, the first signed by Pope Francis: thus the papal document will become “a mission that is entrusted to every baptized person to become an evangelizer,” stressed Archbishop Fisichella. The letter will be handed to a Bishop, a priest and a deacon chosen among the youngest to be ordained, from Latvia, Tanzania and Australia, and to representatives of the Confirmed, a seminarian and a woman novice, a family, catechists, a blind man – to whom the Pope will hand his letter in CD-Rom so that it can be reproduced in audio format – as well as to young people, Confraternities and Movements. Also receiving the Apostolic Exhortation will be representatives in the world of art “to make evident the value of beauty as a privileged way of evangelization”. Among the artists will be Etsuro Sotoo, Japanese sculptor famous for his work of the “Holy Family” and Anna Gulak, a young Polish painter. Two representatives of journalism will also receive the Exhortation “to attest to the great commitment and promotion carried out by those dedicated to this service, which represents increasingly a new form of culture with which the Church feels the urgency to address and feel helped and supported in the work of evangelization,” stressed Archbishop Fisichella. A third sign will be a gesture of charity in favor of the Philippine population devastated by Typhoon Haiyan, in benefit of which during the Holy Mass a collection will be taken up “as contribution of the pilgrims of the Year of Faith to the many brothers and sisters who were touched by the calamity and are experiencing situations of profound need,” explained the prelate.
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 02:37:46 +0000
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