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A rare hush blankets Rome as the city mourns Pope Francis

9 hours ago | oursundayvisitor.com | Patrick Briscoe

Outside St. Peter’s Basilica, crowds swell. Nuns in habits and businessmen in suits wait side by side. A mother cradles her baby in one arm, a rosary in the other. Some have come to pay their respects to a pope they loved. Others, it seems, have stumbled upon history in motion — waiting long hours to enter St. Peter’s for a passing glimpse of the late pontiff. Inside the Vatican walls, liturgies unfold with the timeless precision of Roman ritual.
The wounds that prove love

18 hours ago | oursundayvisitor.com | Patrick Briscoe

Pope St. John Paul II once reflected that “the word ‘death’ sticks in one’s throat.” Despite all of human history’s efforts to make peace with it, death is always shocking, always overwhelming. This was true for the disciples too. They had seen death, and now they were being asked to believe in something completely new — resurrection. Jesus understands their fear. He does not chastise them. Instead, he shows them his hands and his feet. He invites them to touch him. He eats in their presence.
Christ walks with us still

1 day ago | oursundayvisitor.com | Patrick Briscoe

In the Gospel, we meet the disciples on the road to Emmaus. Still Easter Sunday, the “day of days,” this account invites us into the mystery of pilgrim spirituality. As the English Dominican Father Bede Jarrett once wrote, “That is why He came — to give us His company always. We are pilgrims, and yet He comes with us. That robs the pilgrim of any real pain.”How often we imagine we’re walking alone. But the truth is this: Christ came to journey with us.
The heart of a shepherd: Pope Francis pointed to the reality of Christ

2 days ago | oursundayvisitor.com | Patrick Briscoe

“I want the Church to go out onto the streets,” he proclaimed, emphasizing the need to resist comfort and what he calls clericalism. He warned that without this proactive approach, the Church risked becoming merely a non-governmental organization, losing its spiritual vitality.Pope Francis also highlighted societal issues, noting the marginalization of both the elderly and the youth.
Pope Francis in words and deeds

2 days ago | oursundayvisitor.com | Patrick Briscoe

Pope Francis is TIME’s Person of the Year for 2013 http://t.co/AXKIlnqqjr #TIMEPOY pic.twitter.com/xO9K2lDxxf— TIME (@TIME) December 11, 2013In 2016, Pope Francis joined Instagram, gaining over a million followers in under 12 hours. Years before, posing with a group of teens in St. Augustine Church in Rome, he became the first pope to pose for a selfie. Pope Francis has delighted pilgrims and well-wishers by taking sips of yerba maté when offered.
Pope's funeral set for April 26, public viewing April 23-25

2 days ago | oursundayvisitor.com | Cindy Wooden

The public viewing was scheduled to end late April 25 with another prayer service to close the coffin. Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican press office, said the Mass originally scheduled for the Jubilee for Adolescents April 27 would be one of the eight memorial Masses that follow the funeral of the pope. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who was secretary of state under Pope Francis, will preside.
You must turn to see Christ

2 days ago | oursundayvisitor.com | Patrick Briscoe

“Mary had turned her back to Christ by her disbelief,” St. Thomas continues. This doesn’t necessarily mean she sinned grievously or rejected Jesus in the way others did, but that in her grief and confusion, Mary Magdalene did not initially believe or understand the reality of Christ’s resurrection. In Jn 20, she is weeping outside the tomb, unable to recognize Jesus when he appears to her — symbolizing a kind of spiritual blindness or lack of faith.
Pope Francis dies at 88: Papacy marked by mercy, reform, and personal encounter

3 days ago | oursundayvisitor.com | Patrick Briscoe

Making his first-ever trip to the United States, Pope Francis visited in September 2015 and became the first pope to address a joint meeting of Congress. Referring to himself as a “son of immigrants” — and pointing out that many of the legislators were, too — he pleaded for greater openness to accepting immigrants.
How many people saw the risen Christ?

3 days ago | oursundayvisitor.com | Patrick Briscoe

So, how many people did Jesus appear to after the Resurrection? Well, today, Peter says, “God raised this Jesus; of this we are all witnesses.” Who is he referring to? The eleven. All the apostles, except the traitor, Judas Iscariot. Jesus appears to the apostles, both with and without Thomas present (Jn 20:19-29).
Contemplating the Crucifixion in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher

5 days ago | oursundayvisitor.com | Jack Figge

On this rock, God redeemed mankind. A simple marble altar stands in the middle of the rock. Pilgrims kneel in turn, ducking their heads under the altar. Reverently, they place their arm into a hole, the hole that is believed to be where the centurions placed the cross. Here, outside the city of Jerusalem, with hundreds jeering and mocking him, soldiers poking and prodding at his body, Jesus said, “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing” (Lk 23:34).