
Pope Francis at Easter Vigil: Christ ‘Is the One Who Brings Us From Darkness Into Light’
As the Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica, the Holy Father personally baptized eight adults.
As the Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica, the Holy Father personally baptized eight adults.
‘It is the Lord, the God of the impossible, who rolled away the stone forever. Even now, he opens our tombs, so that hope may be born ever anew.’
‘Tonight, our hearts are in Bethlehem,’ Pope Francis said, adding that ‘this is the wonder of Christmas … the unprecedented tenderness of a God who saves the world by becoming incarnate.’
Pope Francis focused his homily on one line from the Gospel of John’s account of the death and resurrection of Lazarus: “And Jesus wept.”
“You ask us not to be afraid. Yet our faith is weak and we are fearful. But you, Lord, will not leave us at the mercy of the storm.”
Pope Francis went on to note there are those who try to move upward in their “so-called ecclesiastical career,” who “look for influences to get here, there...” as well as those “who behave in a simoniac manner.”
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