Pope Leo’s Triduum Plans: What’s New?
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In Rome the Easter celebrations begin - for the first time with Leo XIV as Pope. In his first year of office Leo has set quiet, but noticeable accents, reports Tilmann Kleinjung.
After eleven months as successor to Pope Francis, Robert Prevost is primarily preparing for his first Easter as Pope Leo XIV.
Pope Leo’s Triduum plans: What’s new?
Leo XIV is set to celebrate his first Easter Triduum as pope, beginning with the Chrism Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica on Holy Thursday morning.Pope Leo in St. Peter’s Square. Credit: Vatican media.The liturgical plans have been seen by some as a return to more traditional practice, including celebrating the Mass of the Lord’s Supper in the pope’s diocesan cathedral of St. John Lateran, rather than in a local prison, as Pope Francis often did.They…
In the Basilica of St. Peter, blessed are the oils for the sick and catechumens
Leo XIV began the rites of his first Holy Week as a pontiff with the celebration of the Holy Thursday Crismal Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, a ceremony in which he called for the Christian mission to move away from the “prepotence” and the “logics of domination.” “It is a priority to remember that neither in the pastoral sphere, nor in the social and political sphere, the good can come from the prepotence,” the Pope said during his homily before …
Leo XIV himself presides over his first Holy Week, unlike Francis, who had to delegate several rites in 2025. And the differences do not stop there: return to the Lateran for Holy Thursday, cross carried to the Colosseum on Friday, and blessing Urbi and Orbi much awaited on the background of war in the Middle East on Sunday.
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