Special Mass celebrated for Pope Benedict XVI

HONG KONG (SE):The vicar general for the Diocese of Rome, Angelo Cardinal De Donatis, celebrated a special Mass on Friday, Dcember 39, for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in St John’s Basilica in the Lateran, Vatican News reported in a post on December 30.

A “man of the Word ‘Benedict’,” Benedict XVI is also “a man of his word”  showing us right now, as he has done over the past ten years, that “whoever believes is never alone,” Cardinal De Donatis observed.

With his “tenderness, goodness, humility, meekness, in deep communion with Pope Francis, the Pope Emeritus is a sign of the beautiful face of the Church which reflects the light of Christ’s face”, He said.