After the week-long, at times draining, services of Holy Week, Rome is still up for a celebration.
He's also bringing this approach to the events of Holy Week, leading up to Easter.
This week Holy Week I attended a luncheon at Georgetown University launching their Social Enterprise Initiative.
Holy Week will see at least one break from tradition with this new papacy.
It is the most solemn season in the Church calendar that ends with Holy Week and Easter Sunday.
Thousands of pilgrims and tourists are arriving in Rome to attend ceremonies during the holy week ahead of Easter.
Less than a week away is Palm Sunday, the holiday that kicks off Holy Week, which culminates in Easter celebrations.
The March 12 start gives cardinals time to choose a new pope before the March 24 beginning of Holy Week.
Modern Holy Week is a pale shadow of celebrations of 500 years ago, said Thomas Cohen, a history professor at York University in Toronto.
Kicking off Holy Week is the lively and colourful celebration of Palm Sunday, when the grey St Peter's Square turns into a sea of green.
The Tuesday start gives cardinals more time to deliberate in the Sistine Chapel and get home in time for Holy Week this month.
According to Father Lombardi, Francis has been sitting and eating casually with cardinals before they return to their homes to prepare for Holy Week.
Church officials want a successor to be in place before the start of Holy Week on 24 March, the most important event in the Christian calendar.
But Holy Week, the Christian festival that commemorates the last week of Jesus' life, is a solemn celebration, and once mass begins, a calm settles over the congregation.
The Holy Week celebrations will culminate on Easter Sunday with the pope's first "Urbi et Orbi" blessing, directed to the city of Rome and to the world.
The Holy Week services will culminate on Easter Sunday with the pope's first "Urbi et Orbi" blessing, directed to the city of Rome and to the world.
Church officials want a successor to be in place before the start of Holy Week on 24 March - the most important event in the Christian calendar.
What's clear for now, Arroyo said, is that Francis "is intent on bringing the message of the church out to the world, " as he demonstrated Sunday throughout Holy Week.
The concert functions as something of a preview for the Christian tradition of Holy Week Palm Sunday through Easter Sunday but the music is not exclusively for the Tim Tebows of the world.
Holy Week tourists too excited to sleep after Saturday night's Easter Vigil mass ends, at around 2 am, could stay up another five hours or so for more revelry the morning of Easter Sunday.
The square overflowed with some 250, 000 pilgrims, tourists and Romans eager to join the new pope at the start of solemn Holy Week ceremonies, which lead up to Easter, Christianity's most important day.
Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent, the most solemn season on the church's liturgical calendar that ends with Holy Week, when the faithful commemorate the death of Christ and his resurrection on Easter Sunday.
The Vatican said on Saturday it was considering calls from cardinals to hold the papal conclave earlier than planned, to have a pontiff in place before Holy Week, the most important event in the Christian calendar.
Federico Lombardi, a Vatican spokesman, said last week that the Holy See did not formally invite diplomatic missions to attend the Mass, instead simply informing countries through diplomatic channels that the event is taking place.
Group prayers had been allowed once a week and on high holy days such as Ramadan or Christmas in the Terre Haute prison.
"The fathers are holy on Sunday, and they're holy hell the rest of the week, " Gee said to laughter, according to the Associated Press.
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Like many Muslim Olympians, Khadija will be fasting for the holy month of Ramadan, which starts one week before the Games.
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