The Pope will celebrate Holy Communion in St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican on Holy Week.
Joey Kariveli, Vatican City
The Pope will celebrate the Eucharist in the Vatican on the occasion of the fourth “Sunday of the Word of God”.
This Sunday (22/01/23) morning, at 9:30 local time, at 2:00 pm Indian time, the Holy Mass will begin at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican with Pope Francis presiding.
Ten cardinals, 25 bishops and 150 priests will be congregants.
“What we have seen we declare to you”, the third verse of the first chapter of the first epistle written by John is the theme of this year’s “Word of God Sunday” celebration.
The annual commemoration falls on the third Sunday in Ordinary Time in the liturgical biennial of the Latin Rite. The ordinary season of the liturgical year in the Latin Church begins on the day following the Feast of the Epiphany, which is celebrated on the first Sunday following the Feast of the Epiphany, which is celebrated on January 6.
The forty-fifth verse of the twenty-fourth chapter of the Gospel of Luke, which describes the incident in which the Risen One, who joined the two disciples on their way to Emmaus in the guise of a traveler, and because it was almost night, consented to stay with them at the end of the journey, at their insistence, when the Risen One, who did not recognize Him, blessed them with bread while they were eating, was able to recognize Him. ” the first two Latin words beginning with the phrase “Aperuit ILLIS” (Aperuit ILLIS) The Pope introduced the observance of “Sunday of the Word” in the Church through the autonomous exhortation, or motu proprio. The Pope issued this “motu proprio” on September 30, 2019.
