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End of Year of Faith in Rome
On Sunday, November 24, 2013, on the Feast of Christ the King, Pope Francis concluded the Year of Faith, with a solemn mass in Saint Peter’s Square in the Vatican.
The end of the Year of Faith included:
- a Saturday evening liturgical celebration of the acceptance of new catechumens, preparing for baptism in the Catholic Church. (view video clip here)
- a Sunday morning solemn mass in which the relics of Saint Peter were exposed for the first time publically. (view video clip here)
- the distribution at the end of the mass of the apostolic exhortation, penned by Pope Francis, the Joy of the Gospel (Evangelium Gaudium). (view video here)
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