According to the Pope, Christmas is a time to put “social recognition” aside. Instead, people should show themselves ‘humble’, 85-year-old Francis said. According to him, that is what God has done while people were chasing success and wanting to climb on a pedestal. He also pointed out that Jesus was born in poverty.
Sober
About 1,500 believers attended Mass. They wore masks and kept their distance from each other as they sat around the papal altar. It is the second year in a row that Christmas in the Vatican has to be celebrated soberly because of corona. Something that, according to Vatican experts, the Pope also had the pee about.
Francis will give the traditional blessing Urbi et Orbi on Christmas Day around noon on Saturday.
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