🎄✨ It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
The King and Queen are pleased to share their Christmas card for this year, featuring a photograph taken in the grounds of Villa Wolkonsky in Rome during Their Majesties’ State Visit to The Republic of Italy in April.
📸 @chrisjacksongetty
Dear friends: I was profoundly grateful for my audience at the Apostolic Palace with the Holy Father @Pontifex this morning. The message I received was that Pope Leo will be continuing with the same openness and that Francis showed to LGBTQ Catholics. I found Leo to be joyful, relaxed and serene. He is a joy to be with!
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💛 At Wave House Church in Newquay, Her Majesty met representatives of the Cornwall Community Foundation, which works to empower grassroots organisations and foster local giving to build stronger communities in the county.
Cornwall, we have lift off! 🚁
During a visit to @CornwallAirAmb’s headquarters in Newquay earlier today, The Queen unveiled the charity’s new helicopter, named The Duke of Cornwall.
Having served as Patron since 2009, Her Majesty previously unveiled a helicopter in her own namesake, when she was The Duchess of Cornwall.
⛑️ The new helicopter will allow Cornwall Air Ambulance to continue and expand on their lifesaving work, providing critical care to seriously sick and injured people across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
Ahead of Her Majesty’s 78th birthday tomorrow, a new picture of The Queen has been released by Buckingham Palace.
The image was taken this month, in the garden at Raymill, Her Majesty’s private home in Wiltshire, by Chris Jackson.
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Just a few days ago, I began my ministry among you. Before all else, I would like to thank you for your demonstration of affection and ask you to keep supporting me with your prayers and closeness.
Those who bear witness to social commitment, popular movements, and various Catholic workers’ organizations are all an expression of those existential peripheries where hope endures and springs anew. I urge you to give voice to the poor.
Peace be with you all! This is the first greeting spoken by the Risen Christ, the Good Shepherd. I would like this greeting of peace to resound in your hearts, in your families, and among all people, wherever they may be, in every nation and throughout the world.
If Pope Leo XIV comes to the United States, here's what I propose:
-Chicago
-then New Haven, CT to canonize Blessed Michael J. McGivney
-then to LaCrosse, WI to canonize Blessed James Miller, FSC
-then to Peoria to beatify Archbishop Fulton Sheen
-then to Springfield, IL to beatify Fr. Augustus Tolton
-then with Wichita to beatify Fr. Emil Kapaun
-then to Denver to beatify Julia Greeley
and top it off with a trip to Oklahoma to canonize Blessed Stanley Rother.
All to celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States of America. 🇺🇸🇻🇦
Millions of Catholics around the world have begun praying for our new pope, Leo XIV, during the thousands of Masses being celebrated at any given moment across the globe.
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