Tag: Papal Mass
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With Much Music Unsung, Papal Choir Will Offer Concert in Philadelphia
When we ran down the music to be included at the Papal Mass on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, it was an ambitious list that included a number of prelude hymns and a number of communion hymns. But, despite everyone’s best efforts, much of the music was never sung.
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Expert: Papal Mass Numbers Were Largely Exaggerated
The original estimate of attendance at the Papal Mass was upwards of 1.5 million. Then, the number became a much smaller 1 million. During the broadcasts of the Papal Mass, the numbers floated around were about 800,000. So, how many people were there really?
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Are Papal Events Too Disruptive? Perception Leads to “Popecations”, Low Turnout
On Friday afternoon, the City of Philadelphia was a ghost town. While some streets were already blocked off in anticipation of tomorrow’s Festival of Families and Sunday’s Papal Mass, the streets were much clearer than most days in the City of Brotherly Love.
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A Look into the Official World Meeting of Families Hymn, “Sound the Bell of Holy Freedom”
People in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia have been for the last several months singing “Sound the Bell of Holy Freedom”. The hymn was chosen as the official hymn for the 2015 World Meeting of Families.
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The Papal Mass on the Parkway and Sunday Obligation
The 2015 World Meeting of Families will wrap up on Sunday, September 27 with a Papal mass on Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway, at the footsteps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. With a limited number of tickets available, many Philadelphians will be viewing the Papal mass from their homes or in conjunction with others, at…
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Plenty of Tickets Remain for the Festival of Families, Where Pope Francis Will Appear
Tickets for the Papal Mass on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia are indeed a hot item and hard to find. But one item that does not seem to be so hot up until this point is the Festival of Families.
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Spanish Papal Choir Will Unveil Three New Verses to Morales’ “Himno Eucaristico”
Damaris Thillet, Spanish-language composer took on another role: director of the Spanish Papal choir for the World Meeting of Families.
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The Papal Mass and Festival of Families are a Hot Ticket in Philadelphia
Catholics across the Archdiocese of Philadelphia received their tickets for the Papal Mass and for the Festival of Families on the Parkway this past weekend. But some were not so lucky.