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This Tuesday, December 24, 2024 at 6:25 p.m., follow live the Christmas Eve mass, presided over by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. This mass also marks the beginning of the jubilee year, with the opening of the Holy Door of the basilica. For Christians, Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus, Son of God, the awaited Savior, announced by the prophets. Since the 6th century, liturgical tradition has proposed celebrating three masses at Christmas: at night, at dawn and in the middle of the day. It is the same mystery that is celebrated but, each time, with its own color and different texts. Thus, the first mass was celebrated at midnight because it is a symbolic hour: it marks the arrival of the new day and therefore the passage from darkness to light. All of KTO's Christmas programming on ktotv.com ---- This celebration broadcast live on KTO can be viewed in its entirety for one week, and following this period, until the end of the Liturgy of the Word and the homily.