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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Tuesday for Sweden’s Catholic community, gathered in an open air stadium in the southern city of Malmo. The Mass, marking the Solemnity of All Saints, followed a day of ecumenical celebrations as the Pope and leaders of the Lutheran World Federation led an unprecedented joint commemoration of the Reformation.Philippa Hitchen is in Malmo and sent this report on the Mass marking the concluding event of the two day papal visit.Listen: It’s not often a Pope comes to Sweden, a country with only one diocese, where Catholics number just one percent of the population. Pope John Paul was the last pontiff to visit the country during his 1989 tour of the Scandinavian nations which were the heartland of the Protestant Reformation.But it was to this small Catholic flock that Pope Francis dedicated his last day in Sweden, urging them to follow in the footsteps of the saints. Despite grey skies and a sharp autumn chill in the air, thous...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has left Sweden at the conclusion of his 26-hour pastoral visit to the nation. His plane took off from Malmo airport at 13.00 hrs local time. During his visit, the Pope attended a joint commemoration with the leaders of the Lutheran World Federation of the 500th anniversary of the protestant Reformation in the city of Lund.  He wrapped up his visit on Tuesday morning by celebrating Mass for Sweden’s small Catholic community in the southern city of Malmo.   
Lund, Sweden, Nov 1, 2016 / 04:44 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The saints of the Church have many different qualities, but one thing that unites them all is a sense of joy, Pope Francis said in his All Saints Day Mass in Sweden.“If there is one thing typical of the saints, it is that they are genuinely happy,” the Pope said in his homily Nov. 1, All Saints Day.The saints, he said, “found the secret of authentic happiness, which lies deep within the soul and has its source in the love of God. That is why we call the saints blessed.”He then pointed to the Beatitudes, explaining that they are both the path saints take as well as their final goal: “the Beatitudes are the way of life that the Lord teaches us, so that we can follow in his footsteps.”Pope Francis celebrated Mass at the Swedbank Stadium in Malmö on the last day of his Oct. 31-Nov. 1 visit to Sweden for the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. He participated in a joint praye...
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