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Full text of Pope Francis' Easter Vigil homily delivered on April 8, 2023, in St. Peter's Basilica

Pope Francis expressed "deep concern" Sunday over the flare-up in tensions sparked by an Israeli police raid last week on Al-Aqsa mosque

With relativism in the fields of ethics, philosophy, art, and religion, “nothing more is solid; everything is liquid, or even vaporous”

Some 20,000 people took part in the ceremony at the Colosseum in Rome, which was dedicated to victims of conflict

Pope Francis thanked the priests for the “hidden good” that they do, often carried out “with great effort and little recognition"

The pope noted how many people today who walk down the street appear sad, focused “only on their cell phones, but without peace, without hope”

The April 5 motu proprio on the law of the Eastern Catholic Churches, Vocare Peccatores, takes effect June 29

In 2013, Francis washed 12 young prisoners’ feet — those of two girls and 10 boys

The April 3 motu proprio changed norms in the law of the Latin Church and the Eastern Churches

Jesus “experienced abandonment in order not to leave us prey to despair, in order to stay at our side forever,” the pope said