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(Vatican Radio) Following a busy day on Friday, the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Father Federico Lombardi, SJ, spoke with Lydia O’Kane about the Pope’s message for young people.Pope Francis, he said, in visiting the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum on Friday morning, and taking part in the Via Crucis on Friday night, contemplated two aspects of “a question without an answer”: the mystery of hate, and the mystery of the suffering of innocents. “He looks for answers,” Fr Lombardi said, “in contemplating the Cross of Jesus Christ,” seeing “that God Himself takes the suffering on Himself, and participates profoundly in the suffering of the world and the consequences of hate.” In this sense, he continued, “we can begin to find answers.”Father Lombardi also looked ahead to the events of Saturday, especially Pope Francis’ visit to the Sanctuary of the Divine Mercy, and the Prayer Vigil in the evening. &l...
(Vatican Radio) On Saturday morning, at the Sanctuary of St John Paul II in Krakow, Pope Francis offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for priests, religious men and women, consecrated persons, and seminarians.Below, please find the prepared text of the Pope's homily for the Mass: Homily of His Holiness Pope FrancisMass with Priests, Religious, Consecrated Persons and SeminariansKrakow, 30 July 2016The words of the Gospel we have just heard (cf. Jn 20:19-31) speak to us of a place, a disciple and a book.The place is where the disciples gathered on the evening of Easter; we read only that its doors were closed (cf. v. 19). Eight days later, the disciples were once more gathered there, and the doors were still shut (cf. v. 26). Jesus enters, stands in their midst and brings them his peace, the Holy Spirit and the forgiveness of sins: in a word, God’s mercy. Behind those closed doors there resounds Jesus’ call to his followers: “As t...
(Vatican Radio) World Youth Day Krakow 2016 is building to its climactic moment in the all-night prayer vigil and Mass on Sunday. Vatican Radio’s special envoy to World Youth Day, Lydia O’Kane asked a group of Scots pilgrims about their experience of the event so far, and about what they’ll be taking home. The pilgrims are, in the order in which they appear in the audio recording: Stephen Mac Fadden; Fr. Frank Hannigan (the guide for the group from the diocese of Paisley); Ryan Turley; and Rebecca McDaid.Click below to listen
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis heard the confessions of young pilgrims to World Youth Day in Krakow on Saturday. The moment of recollection and sacramental reconciliation took place at the Sanctuary of the Divine Mercy just outside the host city on the morning of the penultimate day of the week-long gathering.The Holy Father heard the confessions of five different young people.The Sanctuary of the Divine Mercy is the focal point of a devotion given to St. Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun and mystic, whom Pope St. John Paul II canonized, and whose devotion he helped spread throughout the world.
(Vatican Radio) On Saturday morning, Pope Francis paid a visit to the Sanctuary of Divine Mercy in Krakow. He began his visit at the Chapel of St Faustina Kowalska, where he was greeted by the Superior General of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy and the Superior of the Convent. While there, he blessed a large picture of the Divine Mercy, and later prayed before the tomb of St Faustina. At the conclusion of his visit, the Holy Father signed the guest book, adding, in Spanish, the words, “I desire mercy, and not sacrifices.”Leaving the convent, the Pope arrived at the Sanctuary of Divine Mercy. From the terrace, he greeted the young people gathered in the “field of confessions”: “The Lord today wants us to feel His mercy even more deeply,” the Pope said. “Never distance yourself from Jesus! Even if, because of our sins and our failings, we feel we are the worst, He prefers us that way – thus His mercy spreads out. Let us all profit thi...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Saturday visited the Shrine of Divine Mercy in Krakow and heard confession for several young World Youth Day pilgrims, before celebrating Mass for priests, religious and seminarians in the nearby sanctuary dedicated to his predecessor, Pope John Paul II.Our special correspondent in Krakow, Lydia O’Kane reports on the morning activities of the Pope's penultimate day in Poland…..Listen: The Sanctuary of Divine Mercy is one of the most important shrines in Poland and welcomes millions of people every year.They come to venerate the image of Jesus, I trust in You, painted with blue and red rays emanating from his heart.It is housed in the chapel of the convent of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy and it was here on Friday that Pope Francis came to pray.Outside in the grounds, meanwhile, and under the heat of the sun pilgrims, young and old, sat on the grass, some with babies on their laps others with children on ...
Krakow, Poland, Jul 30, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- With political discourse taking a turn for the nasty(er) as the U.S. presidential elections draw near, are youth disillusioned by the inflammatory, insulting remarks that have come to define this year's race?“You hear two things among the young people that in one way would bother them and challenge them and discourage them,” Cardinal Dolan told journalists July 29, speaking from his own personal experience.One of these things, he said, is “a sort of meanness, an incivility, an inability to lift people up instead of dragging them down that they discover in political discourse. Not only here, but throughout the world.”The other, he noted, is the “legitimate understandable” fear that comes in the face of violence, terrorism and religious persecution.However, the cardinal said that when speaks with youth, what he hears instead is that these two things “become diving boards to prayer. ...
