Today, Saturday, June 29, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Apostles Saint Peter and Saint PaulFor this reason, the Giralda bells will ring three times, and the San Pedro chapel will be open to the public and decorated throughout the week to welcome the faithful and visitors.
In the Vatican, the Pope Francisco He appealed this Saturday to “build a Church and a society with open doors”, during the mass for the day of Saints Peter and Saint Paul, patron saints of Rome, in which he blessed the palliums of the new archbishops. “They are called to be diligent pastors who open the doors of the Gospel and who, with their ministry, help build a Church and a society with open doors,” said the pontiff.
He did so during a ceremony in which, as tradition dictates, the pontiff blessed the pallia of the archbishops appointed last year in St. Peter’s Basilica. These are white wool stoles with six black silk crosses that are worn over the chest and shoulders.
At the ceremony, the pope also greeted a delegation present from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, to whom he expressed his gratitude “for having come to express the common desire for full communion” between the Catholic and Orthodox churches. Yesterday, the pontiff expressed his desire to go to Nicaea (Turkey) in 2025 on the occasion of the 1700th anniversary of what was the first council of Christianity.
