canonizing a saint on american soil, actually, he's inside. nbc 10 will bring you every important moment during pope francis' trip. >> pope francis celebrating canonization mass, being held outside the basilica of the national shrine of the immaculate conception, what you see on the right side of the screen, that's a live picture. canonizing father junipero serra, an 18th century franciscan fryar who founded missions across california. you can see cardinals in the crowd, not this live picture here. but i want to paint a picture. cardinals wearing scarlet or red, bishops wearing roman purple, fuchsia, and priests and 25,000 other ticket holders, as this life picture pans the crowd. there they are, 15,000 seated. 10,000 behind them are standing up. earlier today the pope thrilled thousands of people with the parade through washington. cheering crowds of some people holding out babies for

blessings, jammed parade route around constitution avenue. francis made a leisurely loop around the white house. his open-sided popemobile, a white jeep, his first direct meeting with the american public. the parade route heavily guarded. bodyguards brought babies from behind the barricades to the pope for kisses. >> you're continuing to watch the mass taking place, singing. this of course the canonization of junipero serra. it is controversial. 25,000 people are expected to attend this ceremony. why some say this is opening deep wounds. others say they will have tears because of the joy they will experience from this. we can tell you a little bit about junipero serra. he brought christianity to california in the 18th century. he and his team spanish missionaries sent by spain to spread catholicism around the world, around the 1700s.

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and climate change. >> the pope and the president sat down together in the oval office, outside the white house, ten-minute speech delivered in english, pope francis made it clear the vatican is firmly behind dealing with climate change. president obama, in turn, hailed the pontiff as a moral force who's shaking us out 0 our complacency with reminders to care for the poor and the planet. back live to that canonization ceremony, choir still singing. led by the singer there on the lectern. one thing you haven't seen so far, at least if you're tuning in, pope francis is there at the center of the altar. they are singing to about 25,000 people. to put this into perspective, once we see the crowd, thanks to this feed, 25,000 people are there. this weekend, here in philadelphia, we're expecting at least 1 million people ticketed and unticketed on the ben franklin parkway. the magnitude, the cornerstone of the event happening sunday on

the ben franklin parkway in philadelphia. pope getting things started. people singing along along the barriers. 10,000 received tickets to be standing. 15,000, many clergy, you'll see, bishops, archbishops, cardinals, seated, 15,000 of them. there's our first big picture there, outside the basilica. it's the largest church in north america. one of the top ten largest in the country. pope francis is sitting at center of the lectern wearing the mitre in the bigger chair to the left of the screen. let's listen in. >> brothers and sisters, rejoice in the lord always. as i say it again, rejoice. your kindness should be known to all, the lord is near. have no anxiety at all and everything by prayer and petition with thanksgiving.

make your request known to god, then the peace of god that surpasses our understanding with all of your hearts and mind in christ jesus. finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things, keep on doing what you have received and heard and seen in me, then a god of peace will be with you. [ speaking foreign language ] >> word of the lord.

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>> translator: the lord be with you and with your spirit. a reading from the holy gospel according to matthew. glory to you, oh lord. >> translator: the 11 disciples went to galilee to the mountain

to which jesus had ordered them. when they saw him, they worship ed. then jesus approached and said to them, all power in heaven and on earth has been give tonight me. go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations. thi thy kingdom in the name of the faes father, the son and the holy teaching them to observe all that i have commanded you.

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>> translator: rejoice in the lord always. i shall say it it again. rejoice. these are striking words. words which impact our lives. paul tells us to rejoice. he practically orders us to rejoice. this command resonates with the desire we all have for a fulfilling life. a meaningful life, a joyful life. it is as if paul call feel each one of us is thinking, in his or

her heart and to voice what we are feeling, what we are experiencing. something deep within us invites us rejoice and tells us not to settle for placebos which simply keep us comfortable. at the same time, we all know the struggles of everyday life. so much seems to stand in the way of this invitation to rejoi rejoice. our daily routine can often lead us to a kind of glum apathy which gradually becomes habit with a fatal consequence. our hearts grow numb.

we don't want apathy to guide our lives. or do we? we don't want a force of habit to rule our life or do we? so we ought to ask ourselves, what can we do to keep our heart from growing numb? from becoming -- how do we make the joy of the gospel increase and take deeper root in our lives? and jesus gives us the answer. he said to his disciples then and he says to us now, go forth, proclaim the joy of the gospel is something to experience. something to be known and live

only through giving it away, giving ourselves away. the spirit of the world tells us to be like everyone else. to settle for what comes easy. this is the human way of thinking. we must have a shared responsibility for others. it is the possibility to proclaim the message of jesus. for the source of our joy is an endless desire to show mercy, fruit of our own experience of our power of the father's infinite mercy.

pro claim by anointing and anight a nig anight by proclaiming, this is what the lord tells united states today. a christian finds joy in mission. go out to people, love every nation. a christian experiences joy in following a commandment, go forth and proclaim the attitude, christian finds joy in answering the call. go forth and anoint. jesus sends his disciples out to all nations, to every people. we, too, were a part of all of those people of 2000 years ago.

jesus did not provide a short list of who is or who is not worthy of receiving his message, his presence. instead, he always embraced life as he saw it. in faces with pain, hunger, sickness, faces of wounds, doubt and pity. far from respecting a pretty life, he embraced life as he found it. it made no difference whether it was dirty, unkempt or broken.

jesus said, go out and tell the good news to everyone. go out and in my name embrace life as it is, not as you think it should be. go out to the highways and byways, go out to tell the good news fearlessly, without prejudice, without super reality, without condescension to all of those who have lost the joy of living. go out to provide claim the mercy of the ways of the father. go out to those who are burdened by pain and failure, who feel their lives are empty, proclaim the father who wants to anoint

you with the oil of hope, the oil of salvation. go out to proclaim the good news that error, desiteful illusions will not have the last word in a person's life. go out, with the ointment that soothes wounds and heals hearts. the mission is never the fruit of a perfectly brand program or organized manual. mission is always the fruit of a life which knows what it is to be found and healed, encountered and forgiven. mission is born of a constant expression of god's merciful

anointing. the church, the holy people of god, transfer thus laden paths of history. so often traversed the nzxconfl, injustice, and violence in order to encounter her children, our brothers and sisters. the holy and faithful people of god are not afraid of losing their way. they are afraid of becoming self-enclosed, frozen, putting into their on security. they know self-enclosure if all of the many forms it takes because of so much apathy.

so let us go out. let us go forth to offer everyone the life of jesus christ, the people of god can embrace everyone because we are the disciples of the one who knelt before his own to wash their feet. the reason we're here today is that many of the people wanted to respond to that call. they believe that life grows by giving away, and it weakens in isolation and comfort. we are heirs to the bold

missionary spirit of so many men and women who preferred not to be shut up within structures which give a false sense of security. within habits which make us feel safe while people are starving. we are indebted to a tradition. a chain of witnesses who have made it possible for the good nez news of the gospel to be in every generation of good and news. and today we remember one of those witnesses who testified to the joy of the gospel in these

land lands. father junipero serra. he was the embodiness of a church which goes forth. a church which sets out to bring everyone to reconciling, tenderness of god. junipero serra left his native land and its way of life help was excited about blazing trails going forth to meet people valuing the particular customs and way of life. he learned how to bring, to build and nurture god's life and the faces of the native community, of everyone he met, junipero sought to denen the dignity of the native community to protect it from those who

mistreated and abused it. the treatment of wrongs which today still troubles us, especially because of the hurt which they caused in the lives of many people. father serra had a motto which inspired his life and work. he's saying he lived his life, keep moving forward, for him this is the way to continue experiencing the joy of the gospel, keep his heart from growing numb, from being anesthetized. he kept moving forward because the lord was waitingen he kept going because his brothers and sisters were waiting.

he kept going forward to the end of his life. today, like him, may we always be able to say forward, let's keep moving forward. >> just listening in to pope francis addressing more than 20,000 people at the washington basilica on the east of the basilica of the national shrine of the immaculate conception. this is the canonization of junipero serra, who is being declared a saint and brought christianity to california 300 years ago. francis is the fourth pontiff to visit the united states, he is the first to perform the canonization ever on u.s. soil. you're looking at the crowds gathered there, heads bowed,

20,000 words in attendance. >> three words that enended the homily, keep moving forward. the reason he was here in america -- i'm going to paraphrase -- for the people responding to the cause that life grows by giving away. we'll pause now, we'll continue to watch this live picture from washington, d.c., this canonization mass when we return.

to other news, a local police department crediting nbc 10 and social media for a critical arrest. one suspect targeting washington township, gloucester county, is behind bars. a story we brought you last friday. cydney long spoke to police and residences but how this played out. >> reporter: i can tell you, police credit video that we showed you here on nbc 10 to getting the suspect's name. we showed you that video on friday. by monday, they tell me they were hot on his trail, but this as a crime was in progress at a well-known business. >> reporter: 33-year-old chr christopher captured here, it's the same man on the surveillance footage last week. he takes off with $1,000 concrete saw. >> him wanting to get rid of it was prompted, i guess, curiosity

of people who he works with. >> reporter: the lieutenant says people who know him and saw him on nbc 10 called police to identify him. >> absolutely. exclusively. i mean, with what the power of social media, by way of what you folks were able to obtain and achieve was exclusively the reason. >> reporter: as fast as police got his name, a dispatch call alerted them, taken into custody for allegedly shoplifting inside this depot. >> responding to home depot to put him in the back of the car. >> scary. we are always locking doors. >> reporter: she was home alone over the summer -- >> i saw them from my room, they were like rummaging through my car, i banged on the window and they end up running. >> reporter: police working to fine one more man and find out how many crimes they were tied to. >> put the community at east when you make an arrest such as this. >> it's been going on for a

while. happy they're catching people. >> we pay a lot of taxes to live here, they should keep us safe to live. >> reporter: police have reason to believe he's wanted for crimes in nearby monroe township. they are working with police to tie his car to crimes. they have not recovered1,000 saw, they have reason to believe it may have been pawned out of state. >> thank you. we continue to follow canonization mass that's taking place in washington, d.c. a busy day for pope francis, his first full day in the nation. capital. the first day of a six-day trip, hitting three cities. we'll continue to follow this and be right back. p?

now, your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist sheena parveen. >> well, it is a perfect first day of fall. now temperatures are a little bit above normal for this time of the year. but it's really nice outside. it is a bit of a warm-up. a quick one. today and tomorrow, temperatures will stay around 80 degrees for the high. as we go into the weekend, that's when we'll notice changes. weekend changes for the papal visit. we are tracking showers. i think the best day for any rain would be sunday, most of that could be south of philadelphia. models have been back and forth. i'll show you that in a second. either way i don't think it would be anything heavy, even if it did move. live look at center city, clear sky for the first dive fall. temperatures on the warmer side.

comfortable, 79 degrees now in philadelphia. we've made it to the 80s in some spots. but mostly low 80s. it's warmer than it was yesterday. tomorrow will be almost exactly the same as today. clear skies across the area. so overnight tonight, low temperatures dropping down again. its a clear and cool night and then down to our south, clouds and rain, these are some of the changes that will start to move in, not really until friday, though, that's when you'll notice more cloud cover. this is an area of low pressure. slowly going to track up to the north. but the question is how far north that will go. that will be determining our rain chances over the weekend. here's the first model. keeps moisture to our south. now for friday, our clouds increase, rain is south of us. slowly this tries to move up saturday but still it is south of the area. we expect to stay dry with cloud cover. sunday, moisture south of delaware. by sunday the model showing cloud cover and breezy with the rain staying away. second model, though, this shows

moisture getting closer to the area for friday but overall still cloudy and still dry. for saturday, we see moisture getting closer from the south. but we still stay mostly dry and as we go into sunday, tries to throw in light showers as far north of philadelphia. mostly the southern half of the area. watching this very closely as we go through the rest of the week, the smallest shift could mean we stay dry or areas like delaware possibly north as philadelphia could see showers. so for the weekend forecast, as far as the papal visit, saturday clouds, mid 70s, breezy. sunday, cloudy, breezy with the best chance of showers i think mostly south of philadelphia. we can't rule out that shower chance as of now. we have to keep a close eye on that. tonight, clear, cool. tomorrow, sunnying very nice, like today. clear skies for most of the area throughout the afternoon. 80 degrees for the high temperature. friday, notice increase in cloud

cover, high around 77. mid 70s into the weekend. watching that rain chance closely but i don't think the entire area should see the rain even if we do, and we go into next week, we'll be warming back to around 80. stay tuned. ♪

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his words preaching. >> pope francis currently speaking outside washington, d.c., outside of basilica there in front of 25,000 people. let's listen in. >> translator: of angels and saints, to sing the hymn of your praise, as without end we acclaim. ♪ hosanna, hosanna hosanna, hosanna, hosanna in excelcius ♪ ♪ holy, holy ♪ hosanna, hosanna hosanna in excelcius

♪ ♪ >> hosanna, hosanna. hosanna in excelsius ♪ ♪ hosanna, hosanna in excelsius ♪ hosanna, hosanna hosanna ♪

>> the power of the working, holy spirit you give life to all things, you make them holy. you never seem to gather the people to yourself from the rising of the sun to its setting, a pure sacrifice may be offered to your name. therefore, oh lord, we umbly imbaltimo baltimore you by the same spirit make holy these gifts we have brought to you for consent krags, that they may become the body and globlood of your son, lord jesus christ, whose command we celebrate these mysteries. for on the night he was betrayed

he, himself, took bread and giving you thanks, he said the blessing, broke the bread, and gave it to his disciples saying, take this, all of you, and eat of it, for this is my body which will be given up for you. >> in a similar way, when supper was ended, in give you thank he said the blessing and gave

saying, take this all of you, drink from it, for this is the callus of my blood, the blood of the new and eternal covenant which will be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. do this in memory of me. ♪ >> the mystery of faith. ♪

♪ >> therefore, oh lord, as we celebrate a memorial of the saving passion of your son, his wondrous resurrection and ascension into heaven and, as we look forward to his second coming, we offer you, in

thanksgiving, this holy and living sacrifice. look, we pray, on the oblation of your church and recognizing the sack official victim by whose death you willed to reconcile us to yourself grant that we, who are nourished by the body and the blood of your son and filled with his holy spirit may become one body, one spirit, in christ. may he make an eternal offering to you so we may obtain an inheritance with your elect, specially with the most blessed virgin, mary, mother of god, his blessed joseph, her spouse, with your blessed apos tills and martyrs with junipero serra and all of the saints on constant intercessions we rely on

unfailing help. may the sacrifice of our reconciliation we pray oh lord advance the peace of all of the world. be pleased but confirmed in faith, charity, your pilgrim church. with your servant, francis our pope, my brother, donald, the bishop of this church, and me, your unworthy servant, the order of bishops, all of the clergy, and the entire people you have gained for your own. listen graciously to the prayers of this family who you have summoned before you in your compassion oh merciful father,

gather to yourself all of your children scattered throughout the world. for the departed brothers and sisters, and to all who were pleasing to you and their passing from this life, its kind admittance to your kingdom. there we hope to enjoy forever the fullness of your glory through christ our lord, through whom you bestow on the world all that is good. through him and with him and in him, oh god almighty father, in the unity of the holy spirit, all glory and honor is yours, forever and ever.

♪ amen, amen amen, amen ♪ >> savior's command and formed by divine teach, we dare to say, our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day, our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those that trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but

deliver us from evil. >> deliver us lord, we pray from every evil, graciously grant peace in our days, that with the help of your mercy always free from sin and safe from all distress as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our savior, jesus christ, for the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and forever. lord jesus christ, you said to your apostles, peace a leave you, my peace i give you. look not on our sins but on the faith of your church. graciously grant her peace and

unity in accordance with your will to live and rein fogn fore and ever. the peace of the lord be with you always and with your spirit. let us offer each other the sign of peace. >> watching an historic event live on nbc 10. pope francis during his first full day in washington, d.c., blessing the eucharist, otherwise known as holy communion, the canonization mass, what we're watching are the 25,000 people offering each other a sign of the peace. it's usually in the form of a hug or handshake.

earlier we heard pope francis deliver his homily to 25,000 people. you see them in the crowd. stay with nbc 10, committed to bringing you more from the pontiff's historic trip, everybody culminates here in philly this weekend. we'll have more live coverage from this mass after the break.

continuing to follow the canonization mass in washington, with pope francis, his six-day trip, three-city tour we just watched communion taking place. we'll continue to watch the mass. stay with ups we work weekends here.

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nbc 10 news starts now. ♪ we are continuing to follow the canonization mass taking place with more than 20,000 people who are receiving the eucharist. this is the basilica of the national shrine of the immaculate conception. pope francis addressing the tens of thousands of people at the washington basilica. this is the canonization of junipero serra, who is being declared a saint and brought christianity to california 300 years ago. francis is the fourth pontiff to visit the united states, he'll

canonization ever on u.s. soil. nbc "nbc 10 news at 6:00" with picture from washington, d.c., as you saw pope francis celebrating mass on this, the first full day of his u.s. tour, one that will bring him here to philadelphia as you know by week's end. good evening, i'm jacqueline london. with philadelphia prepared to host the pope in three day our nation's capital in the spotlight. you watched as francis celebrate mass at basilica of the national shrine. the mass included something never been done before, the canonization of a saint on american soil. prior to today's mass, the pope rode in his popemobile to the basilica, francis smiled and waved to the crowds. lining both sides of the street, many holding cell phones and cameras to capture the historic moment. it all followed an exciting morning of activities in our nation. capital. president obama and the fir