Thousands of people who have greet you this weekend, share in that same joy, now and always. Holy father, welcome to philadelphia. Applause. Customary that the holy father visits a city, the gifts are exchanged and just presented to archbishop chaput a beautiful chalice as a commemoration of his visit to philadelphia. Applause. May god be with you. And with your spirit. Inaudible. And the holy spirit. Amen. Go forth in mass. Thanks be to god. I will miss you and i ask you to pray for me. There you have it, the very first event of the holy father as trip and it was eucharist that he celebrated. Such a beautiful, beautiful moment. But he truly saved the best for last here in philadelphia. He did, indeed, bishop, how beautiful and what a gorgeous gift he gave to archbishop chaput that stunning chalice, im sure the archbishop will be so thrilled every time he celebrates mass using that chalice. So what we understand now is that the holy father was going to go, there it is, into the the sid
Also crews are working throughout the night to tear downstage set up for todays papal mass. This is time lapse video of the crews working overnight, you can see those little legs, and feet, showing pretty quickly there to get it all done. People camping out to get a good spot the for this afternoons mass as well, we will have more surrounding the big event. You can feel the energy. It is sunday, september 27th, good morning to all of you. So glad you are with us. Im Nicole Brewer back here in the studio. Im erika von tiehl. We are at ben franklin parkway. The the sunnies up. Stage is set. It is now an alter. In the last half an hour, a number of people have filed in. They are now starting to take seat, looking around this area right here, thousands of seats, set up to look at that alter, at 4 00 p. M. When pope fran cyst celebrates mass a lot of activity, the stage is set pretty much. The folks taking all those pictures we have been seeing on social media. Everyone so excited for them.
Beautiful wave and you you can see he is connecting, when he is in the santa marta, having breakfast, he actually comes across as a little bit on the shy side but the minute he is out there with the crowd he just comes a alive with great joy, enthusiasm and it is contagious, infectious. He sure does. A as we are looking here we can see the popes motorcade, and the pope will be working his way into philadelphia, probably im assuming it is the schuylkill expressway that he will be taking im in the exactly sure. They probably blocked it off for him. Absolutely they block it off for him. We will be seeing that motorcade, as he works his way to the cathedral basilica of saints peter and paul where there is a crowd who is just eager to see him, along the way, and then very special group who will greet him at the steps, and then also, the the wonderful celebration as he walks in the cathedral which is the Mother Church of philadelphia. I think it is fun which all these vehicles and he is in t
Philadelphia. Look at this amazing sight, this is the Benjamin Franklin parkway, it is a giant stage that will also be an alter for sundays mass. The festival of the families, the big event tonight which you will actually see here live will be performed here, and the pope is going to be on stage with all of these phenomenal performers from Andre Bocelli to Aretha Franklin and then overnight stage set is going to be reset for the mass tomorrow afternoon. Now when we were arriving here at the Broadcast Center this morning on our media bus and that was at 5 00 this morning and people were staking out their position as long ben franklin parkway to get a glimpse of the holy father. I had an opportunity to talk to quite a few people who are around this broadcast area right on the edge of the parkway here, and they have come from different places. I have talk to one couple from in mexico, and another group of woman here from louisiana a they had all participated in the world meeting of famili
12, 15 minutes since heat tickets went on sale and, we check the web site and right here take a look, the tickets are unavailable. The archdiocese says that they before gone within 120 seconds, just two minutes and nearly 400,000 people logged on to the site to try to get them. Excitement for this city of philadelphia. Reporter father joseph kelly a is a is that excitement only proves one thing. This pope is absolutely beloved. Reporter of course work this incredible demand there are people trying to take advantage, within minutes, of these ticket, selling out there were secondary sites places like craigs list where people were posting these tickets for as much as 500, and jessica, ukee, once fan these were tickets that were completely free. Reporting live here in olde city, im greg argos for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Septa is making changes when it comes to the pope. They are doubling number of station that is will be available on september 26th and 27th, long market frankford line and br