Rome, 29 June (LaPresse) – “We are about to take part in the ancient and evocative rite of the conferral of the pallia upon the Metropolitan Archbishops. These white woolen bands adorned with crosses express, in fact, the commitment of every Shepherd – but also of every Christian – to take upon their shoulders the brothers and sisters entrusted to them, like so many lambs of the Lord’s flock, and to sacrifice their energy, time, effort, and even their lives for them, so that the Gospel may reach everyone and the whole world may find harmony and concord in it.” So said Pope Leo XIV in his homily during the Eucharistic celebration for the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul in St Peter’s Basilica. “Let us pray to Saints Peter and Paul that they may sustain us on our journey of communion in the footsteps of the Saviour. It is the path that He has laid out, that for which He prayed to the Father at the Last Supper, the goal towards which He has taught us to yearn with confident hope,” added Pope Leo XIV.
Pope: “It is the duty of every Christian to sacrifice themselves for a world living in harmony”
Rome, 29 June (LaPresse) – “We are about to take part in the ancient and evocative rite of the conferral of the pallia upon the Metropolitan Archbishops. These white woolen bands adorned with crosses express, in fact, the commitment of every Shepherd – but also of every Christian – to take upon their shoulders the brothers and sisters entrusted to them, like so many lambs of the Lord’s flock, and to sacrifice their energy, time, effort, and even their lives for them, so that the Gospel may reach everyone and the whole world may find harmony and concord in it.” So said Pope Leo XIV in his homily during the Eucharistic celebration for the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul in St Peter’s Basilica. “Let us pray to Saints Peter and Paul that they may sustain us on our journey of communion in the footsteps of the Saviour. It is the path that He has laid out, that for which He prayed to the Father at the Last Supper, the goal towards which He has taught us to yearn with confident hope,” added Pope Leo XIV.
