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A reading from the Holy Gospel is now being heard in St Peter’s Square

Mourners stood as a cardinal sung: “When Jesus had revealed himself to his disciples and they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter: ‘Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?’”

The first reading is now being given in English by Kielce Gussie, a journalist from Vatican News.

She is reading from the Acts of the Apostles: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.”

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re has begun the funeral’s opening prayer.

The Deacon of the College of Cardinals told the hundreds of thousands gathered in St Peter’s Square: “O God, immortal shepherd of souls, look on your people’s prayers and grant that our servant Pope Francis, who presided over your Church in charity, may, with the flock entrusted to his care, receive from your mercy the reward of a faithful steward.”