Sentence examples for final mass from inspiring English sources

Pope Francis has had a busy week at World Youth Day in Rio as he visited his slums and prisons, blessed the Olympic flag and brought three million people to Copacabana Beach for a final Mass on Sunday morning.

Enthusiastic crowds clogged the routes of the papal motorcade and reportedly more than a million people were present for the pope's final Mass on Copacabana beach.

In each process the total final mass is less than the starting mass.

HOW many people gathered on the beach to attend his final mass?

Estimated attendance at the final mass has ranged from 500,000 to 4 million.

Its main building was closed in 2001 because of structural concerns; the final Mass was said in the basement of its school next door in 2004.

Which makes it a fitting lament for an era whose conflicted relationship to popular mythology formed the basis of a late — if not rock music's final — mass cult.

The church's main building closed in 2001 because of structural problems, and the final Mass, in the basement of the Catholic school next door, was held in 2004.

It was the ukukus who led a night-time ceremony on the glaciers above the Sanctuary on the eve of the final mass.

A final mass on Rio's Copacabana beach drew 1m people: a record rivalled only by John Paul II's trips to Poland.

With the last day of school approaching, the 50-year-old Catholic academy turned to its traditional end-of-the-year rituals for solace: the eighth-grade graduation, a picnic and a final Mass.