HOMILY IN ENGLISH FEAST CATHEDRAL OF ROME 2025 PRODUCED BY BRO PIUS OFM CAP

HOMILY IN ENGLISH
DEDICATION OF THE LATERAN BASILICA
9TH NOVEMBER 2025

Reading 1: Ezekiel 47:1-2, 8-9, 12
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 45:2-3, 5-6, 8-9
Reading 2: 1 Corinthians 3:9-11, 16-17
Gospel: John 2:13-22


Feast Cathedral of Rome

Today the Church celebrates the Dedication of the Basilica of St John Lateran which is the cathedral of the bishop of Rome. This celebration of the ‘mother of all churches in the world’ is a sign of love and union with the See of Peter.

I too offer you “the little I have and am,” entrusting it to the intercession of Saints Peter and Paul and of all those other brothers and sisters of ours whose holiness has illuminated the history of this Church and the streets of this city. May the Virgin Mary accompany us and intercede for us.

Let us live our faith, especially during this Jubilee Year, in search of hope; but seeking to be ourselves the witness that offers hope to the world. A world that suffers a great deal of pain due to wars, violence and poverty! But the Lord asks us as Christians always to be this living witness. To live our faith, feeling in our heart that Jesus Christ is present and to know that He always accompanies us on our journey.
Pope Leo XIV at the loggia of St John Latera’s Basilica.

HOMILY IN ENGLISH FEAST CATHEDRAL OF ROME 2025
PRODUCED BY BRO PIUS OFM CAP