DOCUMENT – Le Figaro publishes the entire homily pronounced by Léon XIV the day after his election as 267th pope of the Catholic Church.
Here is the text of the homily pronounced by Léon XIV during his first mass, this Friday morning in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican:
“You are Christ, the Son of the living God” (Mt 16, 16). By these words, Pierre, questioned with the other disciples by the master on the faith he has in him, expresses in synthesis the heritage that the Church, through the apostolic succession, keeps, deepens and transmits for two thousand years.
Jesus is Christ, the Son of the living God, that is to say the only Savior and the revealing of the Father’s face.
In him, God, to be close and accessible to men, revealed to us in the confident eyes of a child, in the awakened mind of a teenager, in the ripe features of a man (cf. Conc. Vat. II, Const. Past. Gaudium and Spes, n. 22), until he appears to his own, after his resurrection, in his glorious body. He thus showed us a model of holy humanity that we can all imitate, with the promise of an eternal destiny …
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