Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI was praised by Pope Francis for his “acute and gentle thought” during a Wednesday general audience in the Vatican. On Thursday, Jan. 5, the funeral mass for the repose of the soul of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI will take place. The ceremony will be live streamed on fuboTV (free trial).

While his body had been on display this week for three days, his funeral Thursday will at least in part respect his wishes for simplicity but also feature some of the pomp reserved for a leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

Some rites will take place out of the public eye. There will be other forms of tradition-laden ceremony in St. Peter’s Square before tens of thousands of people, including national leaders and representatives of various countries’ royal families.

When is Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI funeral?

The funeral mass for the repose of the soul of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI will take place at 1:30 a.m. (2:30 a.m. ET) on Thursday, Jan. 5.

Will the funeral be live streamed?

The funeral mass for the repose of the soul of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI will be live streamed on the Vatican News YouTube channel. It will also be streamed on on EWTN’s Facebook page and YouTube channel.

The funeral will be live streamed on fuboTV, which offers a free trial. The most basic of plans is the “fubo standard” package, which comprises 121-plus channels for $69.99 per month. Like all cord-cutting alternatives, there are plenty of options, especially for sports. It comes with more than 1,000 hours of cloud-based DVR, and up to 10 screens at once.

Will the funeral be televised?

The funeral mass for the repose of the soul of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI will be televised live on EWTN at 1:30 a.m. (2:30 a.m. ET) and from St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. The broadcast will be replayed at 1:30 p.m. (2:30 p.m. ET) and 8 p.m. (9 p.m. ET).

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Benedict died at 95 on Dec. 31 in the monastery on the Vatican grounds where he had spent nearly all of his decade in retirement, his days mainly devoted to prayer and reflection. This week, as the Catholic Church bids farewell to its 265th pontiff, it will use a mixture of rituals — some ancient, some tweaked for modern times.

Vatican officials have prepared to place Benedict’s body into a wooden coffin, ahead of Thursday morning’s funeral in St. Peter’s Square.

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HOW WILL THE FUNERAL UNFOLD?

The coffin will return to the public’s view Thursday when it is carried out of the basilica. The faithful in St. Peter’s Square, who are expected to number at least 60,000, have been invited to recite the rosary aloud. Pope Francis will preside over the funeral, taking his place in front of a canopied altar, and delivering the homily and key invocations.

Celebrating the Mass at the altar will be Italian Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the dean of the College of Cardinals. For Benedict’s funeral, Francis will lead the final rites. Those involve reciting a formal farewell known in Latin as “Ultima Commendatio et Valedictio” and sprinkling the remains with blessed water and incense.

Most of the liturgy in the Mass mirrors those in funerals for reigning pontiffs. There will be one notable exception: past funerals, including John Paul’s in 2005, included special “suppliche,’’ or prayful implorations — featuring a long litany of the names of saints — reflecting a pontiff’s role as Bishop of Rome and also head of the Eastern rite churches.

But because Benedict had retired from the papacy before he died, no such implorations will ring out across the square.

WHERE WILL BE BENEDICT’S FINAL RESTING PLACE BE?

Benedict’s remains will go into a crypt where John Paul’s tomb had rested. John Paul’s remains were moved upstairs from the grottoes and into the main basilica for his 2011 beatification during Benedict’s papacy. Pope Francis declared the Polish pontiff a saint in 2014.

WHAT COFFINS WILL BE USED?

Benedict’s body will be placed into a coffin hewn from cypress trees in a strictly private moment.

Before the cover is placed atop the coffin, objects identified with Benedict’s nearly eight-year-long papacy will be placed inside, the Vatican said. They include medallions and Vatican coins bearing his image that were minted during his papacy and circulated in euro dominations.

A one-page written account of his papacy — known in Italian as a “rogito,’’ a word indicating an official deed — is rolled up and slipped inside a cylindrical tube, then placed inside the coffin. Also being buried with Benedict are the palliums, distinguished hallmarks of his clerical career. A slender stole, fashioned from lambs wool by nuns at a cloister in Rome, it is a potent symbol of popes, who are also the bishop of Rome, and, as such pastors of the flock of Catholic faithful.

At the funeral’s conclusion, Benedict coffin returns to the basilica and is brought down to the grottoes under the main floor. There, near the underground crypt where he chose as his final resting place, the cypress coffin will be placed inside one made of zinc. That coffin in turn will be placed inside a third one, made of oak.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.