VATICAN CITY — Jesus invites everyone to repent and to turn swords into plowshares and missiles ... Christ's passion and death on the cross. The pope began the rite after a silent procession ...

"The disciples said, see, Lord here are two swords." Jesus replied ... and anyone who does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and ...

But Simeon then prophesizes to Mary that Jesus would be the cause of the downfall of many and that a sword would pierce ... but while hanging as a convict on a cross. Mary kept the paradox of ...

Jesus invites everyone to repent and to turn swords into plowshares and missiles ... commemorates Christ’s passion and death on the cross. The Pope began the rite after a silent procession ...