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  • Full text: Pope Francis’ Easter Urbi et Orbi Message 2020

    Full text: Pope Francis’ Easter Urbi et Orbi Message 2020

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    Today the Church’s proclamation echoes throughout the world: “Jesus Christ is risen!” – “He is truly risen.” Like a new flame this Good News springs up in the night: the night of a world already faced with epochal challenges and now oppressed by a pandemic severely testing our whole human family. United in our prayer, we are convinced that he has laid his hand upon us, firmly reassuring us: Do not be afraid, “I have risen and I am with you still!” May Jesus, our Passover, grant strength and hope to doctors and nurses, who everywhere offer a witness of care and love for our neighbours, to the point of exhaustion and not infrequently at the expense of their own health. In light of the present circumstances, may international sanctions be relaxed, since these make it difficult for countries on which they have been imposed to provide adequate support to their citizens, and may all nations be put in a position to meet the greatest needs of the moment through the reduction, if not the forgiveness, of the debt burdening the balance sheets of the poorest nations.

  • The significance of Holy Thursday

    The significance of Holy Thursday

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    Because of the pandemic, we may not be able to attend the liturgical celebration of Holy Thursday which normally involves the celebration of the Chrism Mass in the morning (though this can be trans…

  • Full text: Pope Francis’ Holy Thursday Homily

    Full text: Pope Francis’ Holy Thursday Homily

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    In recent days, more than 60 have died here in Italy, in the care of the sick in hospitals, and also with doctors, nurses … They are “the saints next door,” priests who gave their lives by serving. A bishop said that the first thing he did, when he arrived in these mission posts, was to go to the cemetery, to the grave of the priests who lost their lives there, young, by the local plague [local diseases]. The country parish priests, who are parish priests of four, five, or seven villages in the mountains and go from one to the other, who know the people … Once, one told me that he knew the name of all the people of the villages.