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Pope Francis leads ex-pope Benedict XVI's funeral mass, as a choir in St Peter's Square sings prayers for the first pontiff to have resigned since the Middle Ages. Francis prays in front of Benedict's plain, cypress wood coffin, which lies at the head of the Vatican square packed with foreign dignitaries, cardinals, bishops, priests and believers from around the world. IMAGES
Tens of thousands of people gather in Saint Peter's Square to hear Pope Francis give the Easter mass and the traditional blessing. The Easter holy week, which commemorates the death and the resurrection of Christ, is the high point of the Catholic calendar. IMAGES
Pope Francis gives the Holy Chrism Mass in St Peter's Basilica on Holy Thursday. The pontiff left hospital last week after a bout of bronchitis, ready to kick off the holiest week in the Christian calendar. IMAGES
Vatican City, Apr 1 (EFE).- (Camera: Álvaro Padilla). Pope Francis held a mass on Holy Thursday in St. Peter's Basilica.FOOTAGE OF THE CHRISMAL MASS. SOUNDBITES OF POPE FRANCIS.TRANSLATION:"The proclamation of the Gospel is always linked to the embrace of a specific cross. The meek light of the Word generates clarity in well-disposed hearts and confusion and rejection in those which are not"."All this makes us see that the proclamation of the Good News is mysteriously linked to persecution and the Cross.""Feeling that the Lord always gives us what we ask for, but He does it in his divine way. This mode involves the cross. Not out of masochism, but out of love, out of love unril the end."
Pope Francis leads a mass at St Peter's Basilica to mark the Vatican's World Day of Peace. IMAGES
Images show Pope Francis stepping onto the balcony of St.Peter's Basilica at the Vatican to deliver his annual Christmas Day "Urbi and Orbi" mass. During his speech, he called for an end to "to every war, to the very mindset of war, an aimless voyage, a defeat without victors, an inexcusable folly". IMAGES
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