Posted on 11/23/2020 6:43:23 PM PST by marshmallow
Just as he did during Lent and Easter, Pope Francis will celebrate Mass before a limited number of people.
VATICAN CITY — As happened during Holy Week this year, liturgical celebrations in St. Peter’s Basilica over Christmas, such as midnight Mass celebrated by Pope Francis, will be limited to a select group of faithful and live-streamed to the faithful amid concerns over a surge of COVID-19 cases.
The Vatican quietly announced at the end of October that liturgical celebrations in St. Peter’s in the “coming months” would have “very limited participation of the faithful,” in compliance with “foreseen protective measures, barring changes due to health risks.”
The announcement, given at the end of a short, emailed statement to journalists about arrangements for papal Masses for the dead in early November, coincided with a return to the Pope’s weekly audiences being livestreamed from the library of the apostolic palace.
It also followed an Oct. 22 memorandum sent by the Secretariat of State to members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See, which stated that due to the “serious international health situation caused by COVID-19 pandemic, the Christmas liturgical celebrations, presided by the Holy Father, will take place in the Vatican in private without the presence of members of the diplomatic corps.”
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I never thought I would dislike a Pope.
Darn I was hoping he had it.
Pope Francis, 83 and missing part of one lung, shrugs off coronavirus mask mandates
The cattle stampede through the Vatican is still on schedule.
I pray that this heretic will be gone before the celebration of the Nativity of our Blessed Lord.
It’s obvious to anyone with half a brain that Bergoglio already had the damned thing when it peaked in Italy back in March. He recovered from it easily, and that’s why he doesn’t give a crap about it now.
“Pope Francis Cancels Planned Retreat Due to ‘Cold’”
ews.com/europe/pope-francis-cancels-planned-retreat-due-cold
https://www.voanews.com/europe/pope-francis-cancels-planned-retreat-due-cold
Worst pope ever.
JoMa
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