Eglise du Pape François #Holy Father

The first weekend of the year 2025 of Pope Francis was busy on Saturday, January 4, with two meetings linked to Italian associations working in education in the morning and in the evening of the same Saturday, he ordained Bishop Renato Tarantelli Baccari. The Sunday Angelus was not missing from the solemnity of the Epiphany and the opening of the fourth Holy Door.

On the forecourt of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, the scene was well set before 12:00 with more than 30,000 faithful for the Pope's Christmas message followed by the Orbi et Urbi blessing. This blessing only occurs twice a year: at Christmas and Easter when the Holy Father blesses the eternal city of Rome and the entire world. After he returned to the central box in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican, two national anthems (of Italy and the Vatican) were performed by the Italian army.

In his Bull of Indiction Spes non confundit of May 9, 2024 for the Ordinary Jubilee of the Year 2025, after having noted the spiritual and pastoral aspects of Hope, the Pope had announced the opening of the Holy Door for the Ordinary Jubilee of 2025. A special program was established to allow the Catholic faithful of the world to benefit from this jubilee throughout the world. This Bull, while delivering the liturgical, and especially spiritual, activities to be carried out there, entrusted the task to all diocesan bishops to bring this moment of the Jubilee to life 5 days after the Opening of the Holy Door.

Following the tradition of the Church that dates back to 1300 with the pontificate of Boniface VIII, Pope Francis noted in his bull of indiction - "Spes non confundit" - that "The time has come for a new Jubilee in which the Holy Door will once again be thrown wide open to offer the living experience of God's love that awakens in the heart the certain hope of salvation in Christ."

The Holy Father met this weekend with the Members of the Roman Curia, the workers of the Vatican City for the exchange of greetings and their families, the faithful in St. Peter's Square FOR THE Angelus and he celebrated Christmas and his birthday with the children of the Santa Marta dispensary.

Tata Mpelo offers you here the excerpts of the interventions of Pope Francis during the last week (from Monday, November 4 to Sunday, November 11, 2024). They are accompanied by links so that you can read the entirety for yourself.

Tata Mpelo offers you here the excerpts from Pope Francis' speeches during the last week (from Monday 18 to Sunday 24 November 2024). They are accompanied by links so that you can read the whole thing yourself. The four letters sent by Pope Francis are also mentioned.

Tata Mpelo offers you here the excerpts from Pope Francis' speeches during the last weekTata Mpelo offers you here the excerpts from Pope Francis' speeches during the last week (from Monday 18 to Sunday 24 November 2024). They are accompanied by links so that you can read the entirety for yourself. There is also a mention of a letter sent by Pope Francis (from Monday 18 to Sunday 24 November 2024). They are accompanied by links so that you can read the entirety for yourself. There is also a mention of a letter sent by Pope Francis to His Holiness BARTHOLOMEW on the occasion of the feast of Saint ANDREW, Patron Saint of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

The Holy Father delivered a message this Tuesday, December 17, 2024, on the occasion of the third edition of "LaborDz" promoted by the ACLI. He invited his listeners to use the heart in all companies and all their work environments to safeguard human dignity and the balance of creation.

At today's general audience, the Holy Father began a new cycle of catechesis centered on Jesus our hope because he "is himself the way, the path to follow, the goal of our pilgrimage." Through the Gospel of Matthew describing the genealogy of Jesus, the Holy Father pointed out that through Jesus a new lineage was born. Through multiple examples of biblical characters constituting the ancestors of Jesus with real names until everything ends and blossoms in Mary and in Christ.

Here are the three signs of the Christian pilgrimage to the Tombs of the Apostles that the Pope delivered this Thursday, December 19, 2024 to the Italian pilgrims of the Way of Saint James of Compostela helped by the Work of Dom Guanella. They are also useful for all pilgrims.