March 2020: Statio orbis prayer to end COVID-19 pandemic Pope Francis blessing the world with the Eucharist before an empty St. Peter’s Square at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic is ...

Pope Francis gives a blessing with the monstrance with the Blessed Sacrament from the entrance of St. Peter’s Basilica on March 27, 2020. | Vatican Media During the special moment of prayer on ...

Thousands gathered this week to pray in St. Peter’s Square in ... who personally talked with him. "Prayer was a fundamental component of Pope Francis’ service to the church and the world ...

But with the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday ... Mass for somebody who has died and to offer in our prayers to God on his behalf." St. Joseph Catholic Church will be holding a Mass to ...

Pope Francis walks through St. Peter's Square before delivering an urbi et orbi prayer on Friday, March 27, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media Before the Byzantine icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary ...

But with the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, the only and most important thing parishioners have is prayer, he said. Parishioners of St. Joseph Catholic Church during a prayer service for ...