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27 Jul: Jubilee of Youth chance to celebrate hope, fraternity in world at war, panel says

More than half a million young people from 146 countries are set to arrive July 28 for the start of the weeklong Jubilee of Youth, which will include a special Jubilee dedicated to Digital Missionaries and Catholic Influencers. However, at least 1 million people are expected to attend the final Mass Aug. 3 with Pope Leo XIV in Rome’s Tor Vergata neighborhood, site of the historic World Youth Day during that Holy Year in 2000. More than 2 million people participated in that Mass.

'ANGELS UNAWARES' MIGRANTS SCULPTURE VATICAN

27 Jul: “León XIV: “Los migrantes y refugiados encarnan con valentía la creencia de que la alegría es posible”

CIUDAD DEL VATICANO– Con su valentía y tenacidad en la búsqueda de la felicidad, los migrantes y refugiados son “mensajeros de esperanza”, afirmó el Papa León XIV.
“Su valentía y tenacidad son un testimonio heroico de una fe que ve más allá de lo que nuestros ojos pueden ver y que les da la fuerza para desafiar la muerte en las diferentes rutas migratorias contemporáneas”, escribió el Papa en su mensaje para la celebración de la Jor

STAINED GLASS LAST SUPPER

27 Jul: Father Esposito: ‘Give us this day our daily bread’

My ideal translation of this phrase would be “Give us our ‘supersubstantial’ bread today.” That would sound gloriously awkward at Mass, and ‘supersubstantial’ would be a liturgical tongue twister for children trying to say the word quickly five times in a row. That translation, though, grants immediate access to the mystery at work in the first petition of the Our Father prayer.