2023 Christmas schedule at St Peter’s.
Pope Francis will have a good time the ‘Midnight Mass’ at St Peter’s Basilica within the Vatican on Christmas Eve at 19.30.
Regardless of its title, the Christmas Eve Mass has not been celebrated at midnight on the Vatican since 2009 when Pope Benedict XVI moved it to 22.00.
In 2013 the newly-elected Pope Francis moved the Midnight Mass to 21.30 earlier than bringing it ahead to 19.30 three years in the past to permit the devoted to get residence in time for the covid curfew then in drive in Italy.
On Christmas Day 2023 the pontiff will impart his conventional Christmas blessing Urbi et Orbi (to the town and the world) at noon from the balcony above St Peter’s Sq..
Each the Midnight Mass and the Urbi et Orbi blessing shall be live-streamed on the YouTube channel of Vatican Media.
For particulars of the pope’s 2023 liturgical programme see the Vatican web site.
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