{"id":7577,"date":"2023-01-04T11:12:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T16:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/mass-memory-pope-emeritus-benedict-xvi\/"},"modified":"2023-01-04T11:12:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T16:12:10","slug":"mass-memory-pope-emeritus-benedict-xvi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/mass-memory-pope-emeritus-benedict-xvi\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass in Memory of Pope emeritus Benedict XVI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Montreal, January 4, 2023 \u2013 You are cordially invited to take part in a Eucharistic celebration for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diocesemontreal.org\/en\/pope-benedict-xvi\">Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI<\/a>, presided over by Archbishop of Montreal His Excellency Msgr. Christian L\u00e9pine. The Mass will be held at<strong> 7:30 p.m., Monday, January 9, 2023, at Mary Queen of the World Cathedral<\/strong>, located at the intersection of Ren\u00e9-L\u00e9vesque Blvd. W. and Mansfield St.<br \/>\n\u201cPope Emeritus Benedict XVI was an outstanding figure for the Catholic Church. He was an expert theologian and a good shepherd who was always simple, open and caring. He was a great witness for this Church, whose work is to proclaim Jesus Christ and maintain a dialogue with the contemporary world,\u201d stated Archbishop L\u00e9pine, currently in Rome to attend the funeral Mass for Pope Benedict XVI, who died Dec. 31.<br \/>\nThe Mass will also be livestreamed on both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/diocesemontreal\/\">Diocese of Montreal\u2019s Facebook page<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/diocesemtl\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\"><strong>Funeral service<\/strong><br \/>\nThe funeral service for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI will be held at St. Peter\u2019s Square on Thursday, January 5, at 9:30 a.m., Rome time.<br \/>\nThis funeral Mass, presided over by Pope Francis, will be historically significant, since at no time in the history of the Church has a Pope previously presided over the burial of his predecessor.<br \/>\nYou are invited to watch the funeral service broadcast on Vatican media: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/\">www.vatican.va<\/a> or on Salt + Light Media: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slmedia.org\/\">www.slmedia.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal, January 4, 2023 \u2013 You are cordially invited to take part in a Eucharistic celebration for Pope Emeritus Benedict&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}