Our Lord of Mercy

April 27, 2025

“Many signs and wonders were done among the people at the hands of the apostles. They were all together in Solomon’s portico.”
 
I hope that many of you have seen this week the moving scenes out of St. Peter’s Basilica, or Casa Santa Marta, or the procession to Santa Maria Maggiore and his final resting place. It was an extraordinary time for the death of the Holy Father Pope Francis, and an extraordinary witness of what St. Peter lived with the apostles after the Feast of Pentecost! Indeed, as over 250,000 people paid their respects to Pope Francis as he lay in state, we saw the faithful “all together” this time in St. Peters and not in Solomon’s portico. Seeing the thousands gather and the millions watching and praying from afar really brings to life the Acts of the Apostles and the life of the early Church. 

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