August 25, 2024, the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time: After five Sundays in a row, the bread of life discourse from the Gospel of John reaches its anticlimactic close.
“Right now, Christians, Jews and Muslims cannot meet with one another, at least not publicly,” said Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, patriarch of Jerusalem.
During the Paris Olympic Games, track champions rang the bronze bell located close to the finish line. In December, that same bell will ring in the newly reopened Notre Dame Cathedral during the most sacred part of the Mass.