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 ...

Roman rulers upheld order through crucifixions and terror. Jesus, by contrast, showed that true authority is rooted in ...

Reader: Then, while [Jesus] was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, arrived, accompanied by a crowd with swords and clubs ... and carrying the cross himself he went out to what is called ...

"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 ...