Pope Francis announces Catholic Church’s first World Day of Children
Pope Francis waves from the window of the Apostolic Palace as he gives his Angelus address for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. / Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 8, 2023 / 07:45 am (CNA).
Pope Francis announced Friday that the Catholic Church will celebrate its first World Day of Children in May 2024.
Speaking in his Angelus address on Dec. 8 to mark the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the pope shared that the Church’s first children’s day will be celebrated in Rome on the weekend of May 25-26.
“And now I have the joy of announcing that on May 25 and 26 next year, we will celebrate the first World Day of Children in Rome,” Pope Francis said from the window of the Apostolic Palace overlooking St. Peter’s Square.
“Like Jesus, we want to put children at the center and care for them,” he added..
The pope explained that the day, organized by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Culture and Education, will seek to answer the question: “What kind of world do we wish to pass on to the children who are growing up?”
According to Vatican News, the event was inspired by a nine-year-old boy named Alessandro, who proposed the idea to the pope to have an international event like World Youth Day (an international gathering for young people ages 16 to 35), but for younger children.
The Vatican is expecting thousands of girls and boys from all over the world to travel to Rome for the event with the pope.
Last November, the Vatican hosted an event with 7,500 children from five continents in the Paul VI Hall as a prelude to next year’s World Day of Children.
Pope Francis previously established the Catholic Church’s annual World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly in 2021.
The pope announced the creation of a children’s day after praying the Angelus prayer with the crowd to mark the day’s Marian feast. Pope Francis reflected on the young Virgin Mary’s “daily fidelity in simple things.”
“Prior to the Annunciation, the Gospel says nothing about Mary. She is presented as a simple girl, apparently equal to so many others who were living in her village. A young girl who, precisely because of her simplicity, kept pure that Immaculate Heart with which, by God’s grace, she had been conceived. And this too is important, for to welcome God’s great gifts, it is necessary to know how to treasure those that are more everyday and less apparent,” the pope said.
“It is precisely with her daily fidelity in goodness that Our Lady allowed God’s gift to grow within her. This is how she trained herself to respond to the Lord, to say ‘yes’ to him with her entire life,” he added.
The pope’s appearance in the window of the Apostolic Palace marked the first time that Pope Francis read his Angelus reflection unassisted in nearly two weeks. Since Nov. 26, the pope has offered his usual Sunday Angelus reflections from inside his residence with the help of an aide to read his speech for him as he recovered from what he has described as “very acute infectious bronchitis.”
Pope Francis will continue the celebration of the Immaculate Conception feast on Friday by paying tribute to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major and at a special afternoon ceremony in Rome’s historic center near the Spanish Steps.
Source: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/256216/pope-francis-announces-catholic-church-s-first-world-day-of-children
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Must be running low on adrenochrome.
“They (the Freemasons) will focus principally on the children in order to sustain this general corruption. Woe to the children of these times!” was the prophetic warning by Our Lady of Good Success (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de la Buena Suerte) at Quito Ecuador. This is the latest abomination excreted by Antipope Francis the Reprobate, which this time is focused towards the perdition of the tender heart of the youngsters.
In our first week of the Avent, the traditional masses does not speak of amusements, dances, nor of frivolous entertainments, but of the Judgement of the last day. To add insult to harm, the abominable usurper, in line with his predecessors smears the Immaculate Heart through hypocritical stances. He is mocking the Blessed Virgin Mary, by making such suggestions on the feast day of the Immaculate Conception! Are you at CNA too dumbed-down to see the deliberate low blow? It is one more scandal, to add on the list of deviousness’s by the counter-church. Are you at CNA so corrupt as to tremble for a loss of a professional situation? This man, Mister Bergoglio will be judged with severity, and possibly will be condemned to the dreaded double-death upon the cries of the innocents he has deviated and from whom he is responsible for the loss of their soul.
DAMNATION truly is the subject of this first week within the Avent season. The fate of the damned should be constantly up-dated, not so much about each individual’s condition since each damned will never know any sort of improvement nor worsening, but it should be a regular up-dating to each newcomer. Hell is surely immense in its dimensions, however it is not nearly reaching the real immensity; which is the infinite limits of the glory of Heaven. Compared to Heaven, Hell is miserably small. It is compact; it is limited from its sentines; into its innumerable bowels, and all the way up to its gate where stands the terrible sign: “Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate”, most frequently translated into the English as “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” In fine and in total, those are the inner dimensions of Hell.
The unique exit, reserved exclusively to the demons, in order for them to roam the earth’s surface so they can attempt at seducing the souls of the living, WILL BE SHUT FOREVER upon the final Judgement. Satan, the once splendid Lucifer, and his fallen angels, as well as his multitudes of demons will be trapped. Hell will then become a giant PRESSURE COOKER. The horror will become exponentially multiplied towards a negative infinity. The entire Hell will become a multiplication of hellish resentments; of perpetual vendettas and, of deliberate sophisticated torments to all until the never endings’.
There are some former popes as well as some fallen…
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… There are some former popes as well as some fallen prelates currently entrapped in that sinister place of desolation. Dante Alighieri was granted the extraordinary visit of those places. He was send in order to serve as a witness to the Italian society during the Renaissance, when Freemasonry was getting organized. His Divine Comedy goes beyond literary curiosity: it is a warning. The reprobates alas, misused the informations by making them into a diabolical challenge by forming the Ninth Circle, as a sinister act of defiance towards God. Dante Alighieri had a diligent guide in the person of the poet Virgile, through this ghastly visit of the inferno. Dante saw some clerics packed in oversized marmites. He saw some wicked popes. Virgile pointed to Dante, a particularly vicious pope from which only the feet were visible for he was permanently plunged head’s down. This was five centuries ago, but up-dates are currently available for our times.
For our times, the Universal Church recognizes that St. Pius X is in Heaven. A still little know mystic, and a devout disciple to this Holy Father’s catechism, saw him several times as a glorified person. The saint simply looked like a good parish priest, sweet and caring. Now what about the antipopes who have formed an uninterrupted dynasty since the conclave of 1958? Several saw Antipope “Saint” John-Paul II either in hell by some individuals or as a recognizable…
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… since the conclave of 1958? Several saw Antipope “Saint” John-Paul II either in hell by some individuals or as a recognizable silhouette of flames to the eyes of a crowd of young Polish Catholics during a feast dedicated to the anniversary of the death of their late pontiff. The disturbing picture taken by the young pilgrims available for all to see on the internet. Antipope “Saint” John XXIII caused the death of a young Catholic prior to the double ‘canonization’ of Antipopes J23 & JP2, when the apostate ‘hanging Christ’ collapsed. Let’s not forget that J23′s body was embalmed as a pharaoh, which cannot demonstrate incorruptibility.
This typing hand may tell of a brother militant, who, while praying a Rosary of the BVM, saw Antipope “Saint” Paul VI. The militant at that moment still believed, as many Catholics, that the late Mgr. Montini had been a legitimate pope. The vision was unsolicited. It lasted several long seconds, which were enough to identify the former pontiff. He was as recognizable as he looks on his official portraits, but, during the brief vision, he was not static. He looked down. He was translucid and his inside was like a burning furnace.
The said brother militant told some confessors. I alas have to guess, but for the rare exception of a priest of the Institute of Christ the King, most in the modern clergy need more proofs, or simply, as the Pharisees against Our Lord Jesus Christ did, they are waiting for “a sign” in order to believe.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.
Pope Saint Pius X, thou who said to smite the heretics, pray for us.
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