Vatican City, Jun 2, 2008 / 08:30 am
Today the Pope welcomed 7,000 faithful from the archdiocese of Turin, Italy. After extolling their efforts to grow deeper in the faith, the Holy Father announced that in the spring of 2010, there will be an exposition of the Shroud of Turin.
Pope Benedict began his talk to the faithful by saying that he is aware of how over the past ten years, the archdiocesan community has undertaken "wide-ranging apostolic and missionary activities, based on intense spiritual movement which focuses above all on the Sunday Eucharist, on weekly Eucharistic adoration and on the rediscovery of the importance of the Sacrament of Penance."
The Holy Father noted how the next pastoral year will be dedicated to the Word of God, while the following one "will see you oriented towards a more attentive contemplation of the Passion of Christ."
The Pope also had a special gift that he gave the Catholics from Turin as the contemplate Jesus’ Passion. At the audience he announced that he had accepted the request of the archbishop of Turin to have another “Solemn Exposition of the Shroud” in the spring of 2010.