“As an emotional closing Mass of the global church’s Year of Faith was highlighted by the presence of the relics of St Peter in their first-ever public exposition, just before the bronze casket containing the eight small fragments of the first Pope’s bones were brought to his the current successor to cradle during the Creed, the 266th Bishop of Rome – the first to call himself Francis . . . the first from outside Europe in over a millennium – delivered the following homily, below in its Vatican English translation:
“Today’s solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, the crowning of the liturgical year, also marks the conclusion of the Year of Faith opened by Pope Benedict XVI, to whom our thoughts now turn with affection and gratitude. By this providential initiative, he gave us an opportunity to rediscover the beauty of the journey of faith begun on the day of our Baptism, which made us children of God and brothers and sisters in the Church. A journey which has as its ultimate end our full encounter with God, and throughout which the Holy Spirit purifies us, lifts us up and sanctifies us, so that we may enter into the happiness for which our hearts long.”
In a recent post, Rocco Palmo presented Pope Francis’ homily during the closing Mass of the Year of Faith.
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May the seeds that have planted and/or nurtured during this Year of Faith bear much fruit.
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