75K+ flowers -- donated to the Vatican -- came from the Netherlands to decorate St. Peter’s Square for Easter. A 35-person volunteer team assembles the display in three days, and many plants are later replanted or donated.
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Video met hoogtepunten uit de wijding van mgr. Cornelissen tot bisschop van Groningen-Leeuwarden, zaterdag 11 oktober in de kathedraal van Groningen nu online: https://t.co/sSC44V8hLx
Cultivating our heart takes effort. It is the greatest work. Yet by digging deep and humbling ourselves, we draw ever closer to the Lord, who emptied Himself to become like us.
In the #GospelOfTheDay (Lk 13:22-30) Jesus calls into question “the security of believers.” He tells us that it is not enough to profess the faith with words. Our faith is authentic when it embraces our whole life, when it becomes a criterion for our decisions, when it makes us women and men committed to doing what is right, who take risks out of love, as Jesus did.
Everyone knows the Rosary or the Scapular.
But across history Mary has given the Church other devotions, some almost forgotten today.
Here are 5 lesser known Marian devotions with powerful promises. 🧵
Paus Leo XIV's gebed voor jongeren tijdens Jubileumwake in Tor Vergata met 1 miljoen pelgrims: Aanbid Christus in Eucharistie. Studeer, werk en heb lief met Hem aan uw zijde. 'Blijf bij ons, Heer' U bent ons goed, uw licht verlicht zelfs de donkerste nacht
The Lord invites us to address God as “Abba,” “Father,” with childlike simplicity, boldness, and the certainty of being loved. The more we pray with confidence to our heavenly Father, the more we discover that we are beloved children and come to know the greatness of His love (Lk 11:1-13). #GospelOfTheDay
Blesseds Carlo Acutis and Piergiorgio Frassati will be canonized together in Rome on September 7, 2025.
This morning, Pope Leo XIV presided over the Ordinary Public Consistory for the Canonization of the Blesseds, announcing that these Italian young men will be inscribed in the Register of Saints on the first Sunday of the month.
Faith is above all a response to a gaze of love. The greatest mistake we can make as Christians is, in the words of Saint Augustine, “to presume that the grace of Christ consists in His example and not in the gift of His person.”
De Nederlandse Bisschoppenconferentie maakt een voorbede beschikbaar om te bidden voor het conclaaf dat op woensdag 7 mei begint. Het college van kardinalen, in het Vaticaan bijeen, vraagt met nadruk om gebed van alle gelovigen voor het conclaaf.
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The body of the late Pope Francis will be transferred to St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday at 9:00 AM to lie in state until his funeral on Saturday morning at 10:00 AM.
The Holy See Press Office announced on Tuesday that Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, Dean of the College of Cardinals, will preside at the funeral Mass, which will be concelebrated by Patriarchs, Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops, and priests from across the globe.
The Eucharistic celebration will conclude with the Ultima commendatio and the Valedictio, marking the beginning of the Novemdiales, or nine days of mourning and Masses for the repose of Pope Francis' soul.
The late Pope's body will then be taken into St. Peter’s Basilica and then to the Basilica of St. Mary Major for entombment.
Earlier, on Wednesday, the coffin containing the Pope’s body will be carried from the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta to St. Peter’s Basilica.
Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, will preside over the rite of translation on April 23, which will begin at 9:00 AM with a moment of prayer.
The procession will pass through Santa Marta Square and the Square of the Roman Protomartyrs, according to the Holy See Press Office.
The procession will then exit through the Arch of the Bells into St. Peter’s Square and enter the Vatican Basilica through the central door.
At the Altar of the Confession, the Cardinal Camerlengo will preside over the Liturgy of the Word, at the conclusion of which the visits to the body of the Roman Pontiff will commence.