{"id":182531,"date":"2025-12-13T12:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/182531\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T12:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:21:15","slug":"pope-at-christmas-let-music-be-a-dwelling-place-for-the-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/182531\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope: At Christmas, let music be a \u2018dwelling place for the soul\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo meets with artists and organisers involved in the Vatican\u2019s Christmas Concert, saying that the festive period reminds us that God comes to meet us \u201cat the very heart of our small human stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By Vatican News<\/p>\n<p>For 33 years, the Vatican has hosted a Christmas concert in the Paul VI Hall. This year, the event is taking place at the auditorium on Via della Conciliazione, not far from St. Peter\u2019s Basilica, on Saturday, December 13th.<\/p>\n<p>In a meeting with organisers and the artists who will be participating, the Pope emphasized that \u201cmusic accompanies our journeys, our memories and our efforts: it is a shared intimate diary that preserves each person\u2019s feelings\u2014nostalgia, desire, expectation, disorientation, rebirth\u2014telling our story with simplicity and, at the same time, with depth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2025-12\/pope-to-living-nativity-participants-a-gift-of-light-for-world.html\" title=\"Pope: The Nativity is a gift of light for our world in need of hope\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-original=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/content\/dam\/vaticannews\/agenzie\/images\/srv\/2025\/12\/13\/2025-12-13-figuranti-del-prersepio-vivente-della-basilica-di-san\/1765616231890.JPG\/_jcr_content\/renditions\/cq5dam.thumbnail.cropped.500.281.jpeg\" alt=\"Pope: The Nativity is a gift of light for our world in need of hope\"\/><\/p>\n<p>      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n      Speaking to about 1,000 people taking part in the \u201cLiving Nativity\u201d tradition at the Basilica of St. Mary Major, Pope Leo challenges them to spread the message that we are never &#8230;\n     <\/p>\n<p>God meets us in our stories <\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristmas also reminds us,\u201d Pope Leo continued, \u201cthat in order to reveal himself, God chooses a human setting. He does not rely on grand scenery, but on a simple home; he does not show himself from afar, but draws near; he does not remain in an inaccessible place in heaven, but comes to meet us at the very heart of our small stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Pope recalled that the proceeds of this year\u2019s concert will go to a Salesian missionary project in the Republic of the Congo, where a primary school for 350 is to be built.<\/p>\n<p>This project, the Pope noted, reminds us that beauty, \u201cwhen it is authentic, does not remain closed in on itself, but gives rise to responsible choices for the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With Christmas around the corner, the Pope expressed his hope that \u201cmusic might be a dwelling place for the soul\u2014an inner space where the heart can speak, drawing us closer to God and allowing our humanity to be ever more inspired by his love.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pope Leo meets with artists and organisers involved in the Vatican\u2019s Christmas Concert, saying that the festive period&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[39529,1503,146,85,46,409,14655],"class_list":{"0":"post-182531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-christmas","9":"tag-culture","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-pope-leo-xiv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}