Pope Francis celebrated Palm Sunday mass in a nearly empty St. Peter’s basilica in Rome, live streamed to millions of Catholic faithful around the world.
A handful of prelates and nuns sat several meters apart in empty pews as he opened Holy Week festivities that will culminate next weekend on Easter Sunday. All celebrations will be closed to the public for the first time in modern history. Normally, the pope holds Easter celebrations in St. Peter’s Square, but this year he will live stream Easter Sunday mass from inside St. Peter’s basilica. He will also forego the traditional Way of the Cross in front of the Roman colosseum, and instead hold it alone in St. Peter’s square.
— Read on www.thedailybeast.com/pope-francis-celebrates-palm-sunday-mass-in-empty-st-peters-basilica
There see tremendous amounts of societal and cultural changes taking place around the planet..
This makes one wonder if these changes are permanent.. will religion forever be altered and the standard state of affairs?
Christ will rise? Or maybe next year..
