– The people walking in the shadows saw a great light

On Christmas Eve, Tuesday 24 December, starting at 16.45, the crib set up in St. Peter’s Square will be inaugurated.

Every year, for the occasion, the Holy Father turns on the ‘light of peace’. The television channel Telepace animates this appointment and also offers a moment of prayer, inviting the viewers to turn on their own light of peace together with the Pope.

This is an initiative that was inaugurated by John Paul II in 1985. Benedict XVI chose to continue it and Pope Francis has also adopted it.

This year, during the fourth centenary of the death of St. Camillus de Lellis, the event will be a reason for further joy for the whole of the Camillian Order. During the broadcast, entitled, ‘the people walking in the shadows saw a great light’, Fr. Sergio Palumbo and Fr. Modest Ouedraogo, both Ministers of the Sick, will play two pieces from the ARSPOP 1 album ‘Christmas Nee Africa’.

This musical project, the result of an idea of Fr. Palumbo and Mauro Spenillo (artistic direction), brings together some of the most traditional Christmas carols, which have been reworked with African sounds and with the addition of parts sung in the Moré dialect of Burkina Faso, a country where the Camillians have been missionaries for over forty years.

When you buy the record you help to support the mission of the Camillians in the Philippines, a country which was struck first by an earthquake (October 2013) and then by the terrible typhoon ‘Haiyan’ (November 2013).

Do not miss the live broadcast of this happy and special Christmas appointment!

[Leggi la rassegna stampa delle attività per il IV Centenario]