OUR PRAYERS AND BEST WISHES
ON YOUR 13TH TRIP ABROAD, YOUR HOLINESS.
GOD BLESS YOUR MISSION AND THE CZECH PEOPLE.
Saturday, Sept. 26
SAINTS COSMAS & DAMIAN (born in Arabia, died in Syria 287)
Healers and Martyrs
Twin brothers beheaded under Diocletian
OR today.
Illustration: St. Wenceslas
Benedict XVI's addr3ess to Brazilian bishops on ad limina visit:
'The solidity of the Christian family is an answer to relativistic seductions'
Other Page 1 stories: A editorial on the Holy Father's trip to the Czech Republic which starts today (and three stories in the inside pages);
the G20 summit in Pittsburgh; and the UN Security Council dreams of nuclear disarmament.
APOSTOLIC VISIT OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI
TO THE CZECH REPUBLIC
September 26-28, 2009
PROGRAM
Saturday, September 26
ROME
09.20 Departure for Prague from Ciampino airport.
PRAGUE
11.30 WELCOME CEREMONY at International Airport of Stará Ruzyně
- Address by the Holy Father.
12.30 VISIT TO TBE INFANT JESUS OF PRAGE
Church of St. Mary, Prague
- Greeting by the Holy Father
16.30 COURTESY VISIT TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC
Presidential Palace.
17.00 MEETING WITH CZECH POLITICAL AND CIVILIAN AUTHORITIES
AND THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS
Presidential Palace.
- Address of the Holy Father.
18.00 CELEBRATION OF VESPERS WITH PRIESTS, RELIGIOUS, SEMINARIANS
AND LAY MOVEMENTS
Cathedral of Saints Vitus, Wenceslas and Adalbert.
- Address by the Holy Father.
Sunday, September 27
PRAGUE
08.45 Departure from the International Airport of Prague for Brno.
BRNO
09.20 Arrival at Turany Airport in Brno.
10.00 HOLY MASS at Turany Airport.
- Homily by the Holy Father.
ANGELUS
- Words by the Holy Father.
12.45 Departure from Brno airport for Prague.
PRAGUE
13.20 Arrival at the international airport.
17.15 ECUMENICAL MEETING
Throne Room, Archbishop's Palace
- Address by the Holy Father
18.00 MEETING WITH THE ACADEMIC WORLD
Vladislaw Hall, Prague Castle
- Address by the Holy Father
Monday, September 28
STARA BOLESLAW
08.50 Visit to the Church of St. Wenceslas
09.45 HOLY MASS
for the Feast of St. Wenceslas, Patron of the Czech Republic
Melnik Esplanade
- Homily by the Holy Father
ENCOUNTER WITH CHECH YOUTH
Melnik Esplanade
- Address by the Holy Father
PRAGUE
13.15 Lunch with the bishops of the Czech Republic and the papal entourage
Archbishop's Palace, Prague.
16.45 Farewell, Apostolic Nunciature of Prague
17.15 DEPARTURE CEREMONY
Stará Ruzyně International Airport
- Address by the Holy Father
17.45 Departure for Rome
ROME
19.50 Arrival at Ciampino airport.
NB: Italy and the Czech Republic are in the same time zone.
NB: From here on, all news and photos on the Pope's visit to the Czech Republic will be posted directly in the CZECH REPUBLIC thread.
Concert for the Pope
on October 8 in Rome
Translated from
Sept. 26, 2009
In connection with a joint Vatican-Germany project called '1939-2009: Seventy years since the outbreak of World War II', a concert sponsored by a group called Giovani contro la Guerra (Youth against war) will be held at the Auditorium on Via di Conciliazione on Thursday, Oct. 8, to be attended by Pope Benedict XVI.
Performing will be the InterRegionales JugendsinfonieOrchester (IRO) with the special participation of Michelle Breedt and Klaus Maria Brandauer. The conductors are Jochem Jochem Hochstenbach and Wolfgang Gönnenwein.
They will play music by Mahler and Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, with texts by Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Paul Celan, Berthold Brecht, as well as two poems written by children who were interned in the Theresienstadt concetration camp.
The concert was organized by the Pontifical Council for Promoting christian Unity, the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with Judaism, the Embassy of Germany to the Holy See, and the Europäisches KulturForum Mainau e.V.
Cardinal Kasper and the German ambassador will hold a news briefing on the '1939-2009' project at the Vatican press hall on Thursday, Oct. 1.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 26/09/2009 21:27]