His Holiness Pope Leo XIV: At Christmas, let music be a ‘dwelling place for the soul’
His Holiness Pope Leo XIV addresses participants and organizers of the Vatican's Christmas concert (@Vatican Media)
His Holiness Pope Leo XIV meets with artists and organizers involved in the Vatican’s Christmas Concert, saying that the festive period reminds us that God comes to meet us “at the very heart of our small human stories.”
By Vatican News
For 33 years, the Vatican has hosted a Christmas concert in the Paul VI Hall. This year, the event is taking place at the auditorium on Via della Conciliazione, not far from St. Peter’s Basilica, on Saturday, December 13th.
In a meeting with organizers and the artists who will be participating, the Pope emphasized that “music accompanies our journeys, our memories and our efforts: it is a shared intimate diary that preserves each person’s feelings—nostalgia, desire, expectation, disorientation, rebirth—telling our story with simplicity and, at the same time, with depth.”
God meets us in our stories
“Christmas also reminds us,” His Holiness Pope Leo XIV continued, “that in order to reveal himself, God chooses a human setting. He does not rely on grand scenery, but on a simple home; he does not show himself from afar, but draws near; he does not remain in an inaccessible place in heaven, but comes to meet us at the very heart of our small stories.”
The Pope recalled that the proceeds of this year’s concert will go to a Salesian missionary project in the Republic of the Congo, where a primary school for 350 is to be built…
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