Well, here are the links to the Pope’s addresses of the past day or so:

At the Vigil

The homily

The Angelus

The homily was an profound meditation on transformation, beginning with the transformation of death into life, bread and wine into Body and Blood:

This first fundamental transformation of violence into love, of death into life, brings other changes in its wake. Bread and wine become his Body and Blood. But it must not stop there, on the contrary, the process of transformation must now gather momentum. The Body and Blood of Christ are given to us so that we ourselves will be transformed in our turn. We are to become the Body of Christ, his own flesh and blood. We all eat the one bread, and this means that we ourselves become one. In this way, adoration, as we said earlier, becomes union. God no longer simply stands before us, as the one who is totally Other. He is within us, and we are in him. His dynamic enters into us and then seeks to spread outwards to others until it fills the world, so that his love can truly become the dominant measure of the world.

Tim Drake reports, and I imagine the rest of those attempting to blog and report will check in over the next day or so.

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