Let’s learn to lose our lives for Christ, like a gift or a sacrifice. With Christ
we lose nothing, tweeted Pope Francis on Saturday. Pope Francis marked the Solemnity
of Saints Peter and Paul with Mass in St Peter’s Basilica, during which he imposed
the pallium on thirty-four of the metropolitan archbishops installed over the past
year. The pallium is the white, shawl-like woolen liturgical vestment worn over the
shoulders of a metropolitan archbishop, which is the peculiar sign of a metropolitan’s
office: it specifically symbolizes authority and union with the Holy See. The solemnity
is also one of the two days in the liturgical year in which the ancient bronze statue
of St Peter in the basilica is symbolically vested in an ornate red silk cope and
crowned with the triple tiara.Source: VR Sedoc