Christmas at St Peter's
 
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An evening scene at St Peter's Square. Many people come to visit the Christmas Crib, or Precepio, which is unveiled on Christmas Eve and remains until the end of January.

Christmas music from the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music - Year 2000
Offertorium: Adeste fideles
Versione di Domenico Bartolucci Durata: 3:16 - 3,860 Mb Coro Polifonico del Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra; Walter Marzilli, direttore.


Heaven does not belong to the geography of space, but to the geography of the heart. And the heart of God, during the Holy Night, stooped down to the stable: the humility of God is Heaven. And if we approach this humility, then we touch Heaven.

MIDNIGHT MASS HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI Christmas 2007

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