1.2K views · 60 reactions | A midnight mass is held at the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem with Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem sending a message to the population of Gaza. "You are not alone. We will never abandon you," he says. "Be courageous as you have been until now. You experienced fear, death and tragedies. But you are out light in this moment." Video by Agence France-Press | Philstar.com | Facebook

Sing the “Tantum Ergo” in Latin with Pope Leo XIV, the last two verses of “Pange Lingua,” the Eucharistic Hymn written by St. Thomas Aquinas for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi. Pope Leo XIV celebrated Holy Mass at St. John Lateran with procession with the Eucharist to St. Mary Major’s Basilica. Latin text: Tantum ergo Sacramentum veneremur cernui: et antiquum documentum novo cedat ritui: praestet fides supplementum sensuum defectui. Genitori, Genitoque laus et iubilatio, salus, honor, virtus qu