VATICAN CITY, MediaManado.com — For the third consecutive year, Pope Francis will celebrate Holy Mass for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe on December 12th in St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican has announced.
According to a statement issued by the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, “the Holy Father has again expressed his desire to preside at this celebration, on the day when millions of Catholics around the world give honor to the Patroness of America and of the Philippines.”
The Mass will be celebrated at 6:00 pm. It will be preceded by the recitation of the Rosary in Spanish and offered “for the intentions of the Catholic Church throughout the world, in particular for the Church of the American nations and of the Philippines,” and a procession of flags representing various nations devoted to the Blessed Virgin.
A large number of faithful are expected to attend, especially from Rome’s Latin American and Filipino communities, as well as cardinals, bishops, priests, religious, and members of the Diplomatic Corps.
On that occasion, the Kyrie, Gloria and Sanctus were sung from the “Misa Criolla,” by the Argentinean composer Ariel Ramirez.
Three years later, in 2014, the Church’s first Latin American pope decided to do the same. This time, the “Criolla Mass” was sung by a group of musicians from Argentina, accompanied by a youth choir directed by the composer’s son, 50 years after it was first sung at the Vatican in the presence of Pope Paul VI.
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