the Virgin Mary protect and intercede for us all".
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Holy Father's calendar for April to June 2015
Vatican City, 14 April 2015 (VIS) - The Office of Liturgical Celebrations of
the Supreme Pontiff has published the following calendar of liturgical
celebrations at which the Holy Father will preside from April to June 2015:
APRIL
Sunday 26, Fourth Sunday of Easter: at 9.30 a.m. in the Vatican Basilica,
priestly ordinations and Holy Mass.
MAY
Sunday 3, Fifth Sunday of Easter: at 4 p.m., pastoral visit to the parish of
"Santa Maria Regina Pacis", Ostia.
Tuesday 12: at 5.30 p.m., at the Altar of the Cathedra in St. Peter's
Basilica,
Holy Mass to inaugurate the General Assembly of Caritas Internationalis.
Sunday 17, Seventh Sunday of Easter: at 10 a.m. St. Peter's Basilica, Holy
Mass
for the canonisation of Blesseds Jeanne-Emilie de Villeneuve; Maria Cristina of
the Immaculate Conception Brando; Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas; and Marie of
Jesus Crucified Baouardy.
Sunday 24: Pentecost. At 10 a.m. Holy Mass in the Vatican Basilica.
JUNE
Thursday 4: Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. At 7 p.m.,
Holy Mass in the Vatican Basilica; procession to St. Mary Major and Eucharistic
blessing.
Saturday 6: Apostolic trip to Sarajevo, Bosnia.
Sunday 21 - Monday 22: Pastoral visit to Turin.
Saturday 27: At 10 a.m. in the Consistory Hall, consistory for various causes
for canonisation.
Monday 29: Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul. At 9.30 in the Vatican Basilica,
Holy Mass and blessing of the Pallia of the new metropolitan archbishops.
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Programme of the Pope's visit to Sarajevo
Vatican City, 14 April 2015 (VIS) - On 6 June the Pope will make an apostolic
trip to Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. He will leave from Rome's Fiumicino
airport at 7.30 a.m., and will arrive at Sarajevo International Airport an hour
later. A welcome ceremony will be held in the square adjacent to the
presidential palace, during which he will meet with the presidency of the
country and the local authorities, to whom he will address his greetings.
At 11 a.m., in the Kosevo Stadium, he will celebrate Holy Mass, after which he
will transfer to the apostolic nunciature where he will lunch with bishops.
Following a short rest, at 4.20 p.m. he will meet with priests, men and women
religious, and seminarians. An hour later he will participate in an ecumenical
and interreligious meeting in the International Centre for Franciscan students.
He will meet with young people at 8.30 in the "John Paul II" diocesan youth
centre, and at around 8 p.m. will return to the airport to embark on his return
flight for Rome, where he is expected to arrive at 9.20 p.m.
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Presentation of the Holy See Pavilion at EXPO 2015
Vatican City, 14 April 2015 (VIS) - A press conference was held this morning
in
the Holy See Press Office to present the Holy See Pavilion at "EXPO Milan"
2015,
Italy, to be held from 1 May to 31 October this year, which will take as its
theme: "Not by bread alone". The Pavilion was promoted, constructed and
organised by the Pontifical Council for Culture, the Italian Episcopal
Conference, the diocese of Milan and the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum".
The speakers at the conference were Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of
the Pontifical Council for Culture and commissioner general for the Holy See
for
EXPO 2015; Msgr. Domenico Pompili, under-secretary of the Italian Episcopal
Conference (CEI) and Msgr. Luca Bressan, episcopal vicar for culture, charity,
the mission and social action in the diocese of Milan.
Cardinal Ravasi explained that "the presence of the Holy See Pavilion at EXPO
Milan 2015 is not a novelty, considering that from the papacies of Pius IX to
Benedict XVI the Holy See has taken part in international exhibitions to
demonstrate the Church's desire to make her voice heard and to offer her
testimony regarding the delicate themes, relevant to the future, that are from
time to time proposed by the Expositions, especially in recent decades. The
cultural policy of the Holy See therefore remains coherent in confirming the
importance of being present and taking part in debates on crucial matters
regarding the ways in which we inhabit our planet and safeguard the future".
In particular, for EXPO 2015, the Holy See intends to guide visitors'
attention
towards the symbolic relevance of nourishment and the potential for the
anthropological development of the theme in all its breadth and complexity. The
Holy See Pavilion will take as its title two short Biblical phrases: 'Not by
bread alone' and 'Give us today our daily bread', which lead towards a broad
and
full rather than a reductive view of human needs, and to a concrete approach
mindful of daily life, with its demands and emergencies".
Msgr. Domenico Pompili affirmed that "the intention of EXPO 2015 is to imagine
another form of food justice, thereby providing the opportunity for world
Countries to share ideas on how to improve food security. Its purpose is also
to
reconsider the role of science and research, crucial to the development of risk
management technology. In the meantime, it is important to acknowledge the
ongoing commitment of Italian churches to ensuring food to those in need. The
participation of the Italian Episcopal Conference, alongside the Holy See and
the diocese of Milan, thus represents a commitment that extends beyond the
timeframe of Milan's Universal Exhibition. Over 4,000,000 people in Italy (70
per cent of whom are Italian citizens) currently live below the poverty line
while the number of the most deprived requiring food aid in Italy continues to
rise. These people are supported in their primary needs by almost 15,000
territorial charitable structures. Through food parcels, soup kitchens or other
more innovative forms of intervention, such structures offer support to the
most
needy".
Msgr. Luca Bressan commented that the Holy See Pavilion will offer to help
tourists and citizens encounter "the mystical dimension, openness to God". He
added that the method to be followed will be that of posing problems and making
suggestions to solve them, "used with success by Pope Francis, to show that the
Church is not a sour schoolmistress but rather a sister who shares our path
with
lucidity and a vision of the future, a devoted mother able to show the ways and
the resources of the future". On 18 May, the Church's presence at Expo Milan
2015 will be inaugurated with a show demonstrating that the relationship with
food is the place in which man's lack of harmony with Creation and with other
human beings is made most tangible; "where, more than any other place, the
throwaway culture is most glaringly evident".
The feast day of Corpus Christi will be celebrated during Expo Milan 2015,
offering an opportunity to show to the world that "the nourishment and future
of
man and of Creation are protected and generated by this bread that is, in
reality, the body and blood of Jesus Christ, Who died for us and rose again,
God's love made flesh. ... We will be able to show how, in Jesus Christ, God
makes
us able to be in solidarity with all these hungers". Expo will also serve to
highlight that Christians cannot fail to be environmentally aware, since the
consequences of consumerism and wastefulness that obscure the original role
linked to food and the act of nourishing are clearly visible in "emergencies
such as the waste of resources and the enormous inequalities in their
distribution, ... and in the phenomenon of pollution and the unchecked
exploitation of the planet's resources". All this "is contrary to the Creator's
original plan and is the sign of a still very immature way of undertaking our
task of inhabiting the planet like a garden able to nourish everyone".
Therefore, in the streets of Milan, in the abbeys that surround the city and in
the "Sacri Monti" of the Alps, the feast day of Creation, a traditional event
for Eastern Christians, will be celebrated and will become for the visitors of
Expo Milan 2015 a form of "sentinel" for nature.
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Other Pontifical Acts
Vatican City, 14 April 2015 (VIS) - The Holy Father has:
- appointed Msgr. Luigi Misto, secretary of the Administration of the
Patrimony
of the Apostolic See, as secretary of the Administrative Section of the
Secretariat for the Economy;
- appointed Msgr. Mauro Rivella as secretary of the Administration of the
Patrimony of the Apostolic See;
- accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archieparchy of Petra
of Philadelphia of the Greek-Melkites, Jordan, presented by Bishop Yasser
Ayyash, in accordance with canon 210 para. 1 of the Code of Canons of the
Eastern Churches.
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