{"id":497524,"date":"2026-01-06T22:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T22:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/497524\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T22:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T22:54:11","slug":"pope-leos-first-extraordinary-consistory-set-for-january-7-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/497524\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo&#8217;s first Extraordinary Consistory set for January 7-8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV&#8217;s first consistory will have three sessions from tomorrow afternoon through Thursday. In the morning of January 8 at 7:30 a.m., he will concelebrate Mass with the cardinals present at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter\u2019s Basilica.<\/p>\n<p><b>Vatican News<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Evangelii Gaudium and the Church\u2019s missionary character; the apostolic constitution Praedicate Evangelium; the role of the Curia and its relationship with the particular Churches; synodality; and the liturgy\u00a0are the topics that will guide the Extraordinary Consistory that Pope Leo XIV has convened\u2014the first of his pontificate\u2014taking place Wednesday, January 7 and Thursday, January 8.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of these two days, the Pope will meet with members of the College of Cardinals\u2014many of whom participated in the rite of the closing of the Holy Door and in the Mass for the Epiphany on the morning of January 6\u2014in order to foster shared discernment and to offer support and counsel to the Holy Father in carrying out his responsibility for the governance of the universal Church.<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2025-12\/pope-leo-xiv-convenes-first-consistory-cardinals.html\" title=\"Pope Leo XIV convenes his first Consistory of Cardinals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/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\/2024\/12\/07\/2024-12-07-concistoro-per-la-creazione-di-nuovi-cardinali\/1733585340616.JPG\/_jcr_content\/renditions\/cq5dam.thumbnail.cropped.500.281.jpeg\" alt=\"Pope Leo XIV convenes his first Consistory of Cardinals\"\/><\/p>\n<p>      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n      Pope Leo XIV convenes his first Consistory of Cardinals, which will take place on January 7-8 and will be marked by prayer, support, and counsel for the Pope.\n     <\/p>\n<p>The Consistory will open tomorrow afternoon at 4:00 p.m. in the Synod Hall at the Vatican. The proceedings will take place behind closed doors.<\/p>\n<p>On the following day, January 8, Pope Leo will concelebrate Mass with the cardinals at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter\u2019s Basilica. At 9:30 a.m., the morning session will begin and continue until 12:45 p.m., again in the Synod Hall. Lastly, the Pope and the cardinals will reconvene in the afternoon from 3:15 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., bringing the two-day gathering to a close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV&#8217;s first consistory will have three sessions from tomorrow afternoon through Thursday. In the morning of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":497525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5049,211267,50,3417,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-497524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-cardinals","9":"tag-consistory","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pope-leo-xiv","12":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115850619393571825","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}