POPE TO HISPANIC PRIESTS: ABANDON YOURSELVES TO THE LORD – VATICAN TO MOVE TO ELECTRIC CARS TO SAFEGUARD ENVIRONMENT

HOLY SEE PRESS OFFICE: “This afternoon Pope Francis went to the Parish of Santa Maria Madre dell’Ospitalità (Holy Mary Mother of Hospitality) in the Villa Verde neighborhood to meet approximately 40 priests of the XVII Prefecture of the Diocese of Rome and prefects of the Eastern Sector of the city.”

A prefecture is an administrative division of the diocese.

The press office today a calendar of celebrations on the Pope’s schedule for December: December 8, feast of the Immaculate Conception with the laying of a wreath at the statue of Our Lady in Piazza di Spagna and December 12, feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mass at 6 pm in St. Peter’s Basilica.

When a calendar of papal celebrations and liturgies is published, it is usually for the entire month, or even several months at a time. Other December liturgies, particularly Christmas, as well as early January events, will probably appear together at a later date.

POPE TO HISPANIC PRIESTS: ABANDON YOURSELVES TO THE LORD

Pope Francis warmly greets participants of the annual conference of the National Association of Hispanic Priests (ANSH) operating in the United States, and encourages them in their pastoral work, prayer, and self-abandonment to Christ.

“Brothers, do not put your trust only in great ideas, nor well-designed pastoral proposals, do not look for culprits, but abandon yourselves to the One who has called you to give yourselves, and asks you only for fidelity and constancy, with the certainty that it is He who brings your work to completion and will make your efforts bear good fruit.”

The Holy Father began his remarks thanking the priests and conference participants for their visit.

“I have read carefully the questions you have asked me – there are many – and, thinking of how I could answer them,” the Argentinian Pope noted, “I remembered the words the Lord said to St Teresa of Jesus when the books she trusted were taken from her: ‘I will give you a living book,’ Christ is the book I strongly recommend to you.'” TO CONTINUE:  https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2023-11/pope-francis-hispanic-priests-united-states-america.html

VATICAN TO MOVE TO ELECTRIC CARS TO SAFEGUARD ENVIRONMENT

The Governorate of Vatican City State announces the launch of a series of energy-saving initiatives and strategies to safeguard the environment in the framework of the Pope’s Laudato si’ and Laudate Deum, including introducing a state car fleet to reduce CO2 emissions through a partnership with the Volkswagen Group.

To this end, it intends to gradually replace State-owned cars with electric vehicles; make its car fleet carbon-neutral by 2030; implement its recharging network in the State and extra-territorial areas and extend its use to its employees; and, ensure that its energy needs come exclusively from renewable energy sources. TO CONTINUE: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2023-11/vatican-sustainable-mobility-programme-ecological-conversion.html