The ‘live broadcast,’ with Pope
Francis on the 31 December for the “Te Deum” prayer, on Vatican Radio’s English
Africa Service gets an additional Shortwave frequency.
Vatican News English Africa
Service – Vatican City
Shortwave Radio listeners in
Southern Africa can join Pope Francis for the live Evening Prayer
(Vespers) and the thanksgiving prayer is known as, Te Deum, on an
additional Shortwave frequency of 9705 kHz on the 31-meter band. The
Vespers and Te Deum will begin at 5 pm local time in Rome which
is 16 hours UTC.
THE TE DEUM
On 31 December every year, the
Pope leads the universal Church in a Solemn prayer of Thanksgiving to God for
the year just ending. Usually, this Solemn prayer takes place in St. Peter’s
Basilica and comes at the end of the evening First Vespers on New Year’s Eve.
The end of the year Te Deum
is thus a prayer of thanking God for the year just ending. According to
tradition, the Te Deum prayer has been sung (prayed) in the
Church since the year 1700. This year, 2020, the end of the year Te Deum
takes on special significance given the suffering brought about by the COVID-19
pandemic. For most people 2020 has been a disastrous year: annus
horribilis, to use the Latin term. Yet as St. Paul says, “… for all
things give thanks” (1 Thessalonians 5:18).
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