Pope Benedict funeral: Thousands gather at Vatican City ceremony

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called a great master of catechesis foreign [Music] inviting us to recognize the love that God has for us [Music] by the way in a little money concerned me a spirit father is to turn to the heart of Christ the protection foreign especially in situations where goodness must struggle to Prevail and the Dignity of our brothers and sisters is threatened control the trust itself and shaping his heart and his decisions in accord with God's good time also means being ready [Music] foreign who like marriage a promise he made to our fathers descendants [Music] of the father May those merciful spread and testify two for his entire life foreign to him birthday foreign and Pope Francis concluded his homily Benedict faithful friend of the bridegroom may your joy be complete as you hear his voice now and forever and we pause briefly in silence to reflect upon the words of scripture and the words of our Holy Father Pope Francis worthy of note homily we just heard contained a number of citations directly from Pope Benedict from his encyclical Deus karitas EST from the Chrismas homily he gave in 2006 and the homily for the beginning of his pontificate in 2005. we now moved to the prayer of the faithful Morty the response is let us pray to the Lord we pray in German foreign [Music] we pray in French Francois victory over evil and death [Music] we pray in Arabic may they strive to promote Justice and peace with wisdom and foresight we pray in Portuguese whether it is for the least of our brothers and sisters foreign [Music] Italian foreign [Music] Benedict ions [Music] and we now transition to the Liturgy of the Eucharist the choir will offer as our operatory chant Domine Jesus Christi as we move forward we reflect on these words Pope Francis said yesterday Pope Benedict's acute and gentle thought was not self self-referential but ecclesial as he always wanted to accompany us in our encounter with Jesus Jesus crucified and risen the living one and the Lord was the death Pope 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us [Music] as the choir has chanted the penitential Psalm 130 out of the depths I Cry To You O Lord about fifty thousand of our brothers and sisters here have been receiving Christ the Lord of Glory it is our meeting with him that we prepare ourselves for as the catechism says for the Christian the day of death inaugurates and at the end of our sacramental life the Fulfillment of what has been begun in baptism and we see a symbol of baptism one of these symbols on Pope Benedict's coat of arms that we've been seeing on his coffin the shell along with a symbol of his Earthly life a symbol of the the Mora highly symbolic heraldic symbol from Bavaria as well as the the bear a symbol of the ecclesial offices that Pope Benedict held during his life as we know baptism the the day on which we are invited to conform ourselves to the image of Christ which is then we are then helped to do through the other sacraments through the Sacrament of Confirmation anointing that we receive always an invitation to participate in the Feast of the Kingdom anticipated here in this Sacrament we participate in now that of Eucharist it is the church our mother who always Bears Us in her womb nourishing us on these sacraments during our Earthly pilgrimage in which we are accompanied to the very end so that we may surrender ourselves as we heard in the homily today into the father's hands we now prepare to conclude this Requiem Mass for Pope Benedict the post communion prayer Warriors received sacred sustenance from your church oh Lord we pray that your servant Benedict who is the faithful Steward of your mysteries on Earth May Praise Your Mercy forever and the glory sins on her pilgrimage through history as she awaits the Lord's return [Music] [Music] reminding us that as baptized members of Christ [Music] well as the blessing of water and reminders [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] his soul [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] conscious movies and the strength of Hope Solutions forever and ever amen the final ant Fund in Paradise [Music] bless you see me [Music] [Music] foreign May the angels lead you into Paradise May the martyrs come and welcome you and take you into the holy city the new and eternal Jerusalem choirs of angels welcome you and with Lazarus who is poor no longer may you have eternal rest Rockaway Mass concludes the pallbearers approach in the coffin of the Pope Emeritus Benedict they will bear his coffin into the Basilica and then to his final resting place below the Basilica and the Vatican grottos foreign [Music] foreign [Music] even people [Music] it is [Music] pray for God [Music] foreign [Music] that is [Music] the last chant here the Canticle of canticles you might say that our lady on her visitation to her cousin Elizabeth Canticle used every evening fitting that our lady would have the final word here [Music] and he Bears race the coffin bearing The Immortal remains of the whole Heritage event the Bells [Music] emeritus will be brought into the Basilica private ceremony later on you're watching on television so I can see the Cyprus coffin that the holy fathers remains are in that will be sealed [Music] his zinc coffin [Music] thing in case the final coffin in an oak that's there's a quasiatrical ceremony that goes along at that point the body will be taken into grottos beneath the vanity of the silica where there are yet in a few more prayers for the final [Music] father he'll be placed in the chapel where John Paul II Saint John Paul II his predecessor was originally buried priorities beatification and that is in accordance with the 16th 's final missions our Holy Father Pope Francis having come down from the procedure sure waiting coughing of his predecessor the hope of marriage has been in the 16th to give a final blessing and say a few words replacing his hand his hand upon the coffin and bound his head in prayer and recollection several occasions Francis has said that he used to visit often he has called him grandfather [Music] recent did not hesitate to call Pope Benedict is saying a scene here's some of his own fellow countrymen [Music] their Pope Benedict farewell [Music] he called those meetings with the Pope and Meredith Benedict personal fraternal and affectionate Francis and the pope who accompanied his pontificate in prayer [Music] Jeff his coffin being born into Saint Peter's Basilica we bring this live broadcast of the celebration of the solemn Requiem Mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI to a close turn tomorrow morning for the Liturgy for the solemn solemnity of epiphany about 10am 10 8 Rome time on behalf of Vatican media a warm thank you to all of our Media Partners Catholic TV Catholic faith Network Shalom word television networks USA EWTN Salt and Light media Shalom TV India Sunday Shalom at madarchan TV CBS Radio CBS News in London Sirius XM radio the Catholic channel relevant radio radio Maria in England Papua New Guinea Lithuania and luminous radio [Music] special thanks today to our coordinator Alessandro de carterlis and Adriana [Music] mission two of the nights of love is for their continual support for the decastro for communication for the event and Communications that make these broadcasts possible throughout all of the years and we now carry Pope Benedict XVI in our hearts Christus praise to be Jesus Christ foreign [Music] foreign foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign thank you foreign do that foreign [Music] [Music] foreign foreign foreign foreign foreign [Music] foreign foreign okay I'm okay all right

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Length: 110min 45sec (6645 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 05 2023