XIV, XIII, and buon natale
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Juan Diego
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Immaculate Conception
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Catacombs of Rome
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The author reflects on visiting catacombs and ossuaries containing the bones of early Christian martyrs. Learning about these ancient burial sites and their role in early Christianity provides essential historical context for the pilgrimage narrative.
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Hey everybody,
Today’s the feast of St. Juan Diego (and my daughter Pia’s birthday) and you’re reading The Tuesday Pillar Post.
Today also marks seven months since the newly elected Pope Leo XIV offered his first Mass as pontiff, in the Sistine Chapel, where I will have the privilege and gift to stand today.
Here is what Leo told the cardinals, and the whole Church:
“Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God: the one Savior, who alone reveals the face of the Father.
In him, God, in order to make himself close and accessible to men and women, revealed himself to us in the trusting eyes of a child, in the lively mind of a young person and in the mature features of a man, finally appearing to his disciples after the resurrection with his glorious body. He thus showed us a model of human holiness that we can all imitate, together with the promise of an eternal destiny that transcends all our limits and abilities.
Peter, in his response, understands both of these things: the gift of God and the path to follow in order to allow himself to be changed by that gift. They are two inseparable aspects of salvation entrusted to the Church to be proclaimed for the good of the human race. Indeed, they are entrusted to us, who were chosen by him before we were formed in our mothers’ wombs, reborn in the waters of baptism and, surpassing our limitations and with no merit of our own, brought here and sent forth from here, so that the Gospel might be proclaimed to every creature.”
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We are now — Ed and I — on the last day of a pilgrimage in Rome, traveling with extraordinary Pillar pilgrims we’ve really gotten to love.
I helped to plan every step of the pilgrimage, and still I’ve been surprised by what the Lord is saying to me.
Our first expectation was that the pilgrimage would focus on the papacy — on Peter, and the keys. Before Francis died, we thought the pilgrimage would have Mass each day in the church of a different papabile cardinal, so that our pilgrims would
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