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Possession of Titular Church

Consignment and Reading of the Bull of Indiction of the Jubilee 2025 and Celebration of Vespers

 

Possession of Titular Church

The Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff has announced the following:

On Wednesday 1 May 2024, at 11.00, His Eminence Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, O.F.M., Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins, will take possession of the Title of Sant’Onofrio , Piazza Sant’Onofrio, 2.

 

Consignment and Reading of the Bull of Indiction of the Jubilee 2025 and Celebration of Vespers

NOTIFICATION

PAPAL CHAPEL

CONSIGNMENT AND READING

OF THE BULL OF INDICTION OF THE JUBILEE 2025

AND CELEBRATION OF VESPERS

On Thursday 9 May, at 17.30, in Saint Peter’s Basilica, the Holy Father Francis will preside over the consignment and reading of the Bull of Indiction of the Jubilee 2025, and the Second Vespers of the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord.

The Patriarchs, Cardinals, Archbishops and Bishops, numerary Protonotaries Apostolic, Canons of the Vatican Chapter and ecclesiastical Members of the Dicastery for Evangelization – Section for Fundamental Questions regarding Evangelization in the World, wearing their own choral habit, are required to be present by 16.45 in the atrium of Saint Peter’s Basilica to take part in the consignment and reading of the Bull.

The Prelates, Chaplains of His Holiness and all the others who, in accordance with the Motu Proprio “Pontificalis Domus”, compose the Papal Chapel, bringing with them the Notification required via email at [email protected] , and wearing their own choral habit, are required to be present by 17.00 at the Altar of the Confessio to take the place that will be indicated to them by the Pontifical Masters of Ceremonies.

Vatican City, 29 April 2024

By mandate of the Holy Father

✠ Diego Ravelli Titular Archbishop of Recanati Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations

6.30

Departure from Vatican heliport

8.00

Arrival in the square adjacent to the Bentegodi Stadium.

The Holy Father will be welcomed by:

- Bishop Domenico Pompili of Verona

- the Hon. Luca Zaia, President of the Veneto Region

- Dr. Demetrio Martino, Prefect of Verona

- Mr. Damiano Tommasi, Mayor of Verona

Immediate transfer by car to the Basilica of San Zeno

8.30

BASILICA OF SAN ZENO: Meeting with Priests and Consecrated Persons

*Address of the Holy Father

At the end, the Holy Father will leave the Basilica

9.15

PIAZZA SAN ZENO: Meeting with children and young people

*Greeting of the Holy Father

9.45

The Holy Father will transfer by car to the Arena

10.15

ARENA: The Holy Father will chair the meeting "Arena of Peace: Justice and Peace embrace"

*The Holy Father will answer questions

11.45

Following the meeting in the Arena, the Holy Father will transfer by car to the Montorio Prison Montorio

The Holy Father will be welcomed by:

- Dr. Francesca Gioieni, Director

- Dr. Mario Piramide, Director of the Prison Police

In the prison, the Holy Father will greet the Police Prison Officers, detainees and volunteers

*Address of the Holy Father

13.00

Lunch with detainees

14.30

The Holy Father will leave Montorio Prison and transfer by car to Bentegodi Stadium

15.00

BENTEGODI STADIUM: Eucharistic Concelebration

*Homily of the Holy Father

Before the final blessing:

- thanks from Bishop Domenico Pompili of Verona

16.45

At the steps of the helicopter, the Holy Father will take leave of the authorities who welcomed him on arrival

Departure from the square adjacent to Bentegodi Stadium

18.15

Arrival at Vatican heliport

This morning, in the Vatican Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father Francis received in audience the participants in the General Chapters of the Canossian Sons of Charity and the Brothers of Christian Instruction of Saint Gabriel, to whom he delivered the following address:

 

Address of the Holy Father

Dear brothers and sisters, welcome!

I joyfully greet you all, Canossian Sons of Charity and Brothers of Saint Gabriel, and in particular the Superiors General. I am pleased to meet you on the occasion of your Chapters, which are fundamental synodal events for every religious Congregation.

Above all, they are entrusted with the safeguarding of the heritage of intentions and projects with which the Spirit inspired your Founders, and of all the good that has arisen from them (cf. CIC 578; 631). They are therefore moments of grace – a Chapter is a moment of grace – to be lived first of all in docility to the action of the Holy Spirit, gratefully remembering the past, paying attention to the present – in mutual listening and the reading of the signs of the times (cf. Gaudium et spes , 4) – and looking to the future with an open and trustful heart, for personal and community verification and renewal. Past, present and future enter into a Chapter, to remember, evaluate and progress in the development of the Congregation.

Dear Canossian friends, it is very good to see you here, men committed to following Christ more closely (cf. Perfectae caritatis , 1; Catechism of the Catholic Church , 916) in the footsteps of a woman, Magdalena of Canossa, the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of whose birth we are celebrating. This courageous saint, in a world no less difficult than ours, proposed to “make Jesus known and loved, who is not loved because He is not known”. And you, who want to continue her missionary work, have chosen this phrase as the theme of your work: “ He who does not burn does not set fire ”. It makes me sad when I see religious brothers and sisters who look more like firefighters rather than men and women with ardour to set alight. Please, do not be firefighters! We already have many of them. Commit yourselves, then, to burning to set fire , reviving and fueling the “gift of God that you have”, so as to bear “testimony to the Lord” (cf. 2 Tim 1:6). And you do so in a family that, over more than two centuries of history, has been enriched by many gifts: present in seven countries and made up of members of ten different nationalities, supported by the communion and collaboration with the Canossian sisters and with an increasingly active and involved lay reality. This is important, having laypeople involved in the spirituality of an institute and who collaborate in its apostolic work. Certainly, it is a legacy that also brings challenges, but Saint Magdalene has shown you how difficulties can be overcome: with eyes turned to the Crucified Jesus and with arms open to the last, the small, the poor and the sick, to heal, educate and serve brothers and sisters with joy and simplicity. When the journey gets difficult, then, do as she did: look at the Crucified Jesus and look at the eyes and wounds of the poor, and you will see that gradually the answers will make way in your hearts with ever greater clarity.

As we have also been taught by Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort and Father Gabriel Deshayes, to whose work we owe the foundation of the Brothers of Saint Gabriel, you too, dear brothers, are busy these days discerning God’s will for your journey, as we approach an important anniversary: three hundred and fifty years since the birth of Saint Louis-Marie. Your family, born from a small group of lay collaborators of the great preacher, today numbers more than a thousand religious, engaged in pastoral care, human and social promotion and education - especially in favour of the blind and deaf-mutes - in thirty-four different countries. To keep your presence alive, which is a prophetic presence, you have chosen to reflect on the theme “ Listening and acting with courage ”. “Courage”: that apostolic parrhesia, the courage that we read, for example, in the Book of the Acts of the Apostles. That courage. It is the Spirit who gives us that courage, and we must ask for it.

They are two attitudes – listening and courage – that require humility and faith, and which reflect well the spirit and action of Saint Louis-Marie and Father Deshayes, who have also left you a precious triptych as a compass to guide your decisions: “ God alone ” , the “Cross” – engraved in the heart – and “Mary”. Providence has given to you too, then, the richness of a variegated internationality: it will be very good for your growth and your apostolate if you know how to experience it by welcoming and constructively sharing diversity among yourselves and with everyone. This is an important message, especially in our world, often divided by selfishness and particularism: diversities are gifts to be shared, diversities are precious gifts! Be prophets of this with your lives. And the one who makes harmony between diversities is the Holy Spirit, who is the master of harmony. Uniformity in a religious institute, in a diocese, in a lay group, kills! Diversity in harmony makes one grow. Do not forget this. Diversity in harmony.

Dear friends, a Chapter is a “family event, but also a Church event and a salvific event” (Blessed E.F. Pironio, Address to the General Chapter of the Salesians , 14 January 1984). I thank you for what you are doing, and for the work that you carry out every day in many different places and conditions. I bless you and I entrust you to Mary; and I ask you, please, not to forget to pray for me. Thank you!

This morning, the Holy Father Francis received in audience:

- Archbishop José Horacio Gómez of Los Angeles, United States of America;

- Bishop François Touvet, coadjutor of Fréjus-Toulon, France;

- Members of the Council of Superintendence of the Institute for the Works of Religion;

- Participants in the General Chapters of the Canossian Sons of Charity and the  Brothers of Christian Instruction of Saint Gabriel;

- Bishops of Sicily, on their “ad Limina Apostolorum” visit.

On Thursday 2 May 2024 , at 13.30 , in the Holy See Press Office , Sala San Pio X, Via dell’Ospedale 1, a meeting will be held with journalists at the end of the International Meeting “Parish Priests for the Synod” (Sacrofano/Rome, 29 April to 2 May 2024), organized jointly by the Secretariat General of the Synod and the Dicasteries for the Clergy, for the Eastern Churches and for Evangelization – Section for First Evangelization and the New Particular Churches.

The speakers, who will be available to the press for interviews, will be: Msgr. Luis Marín De San Martín, O.S.A. , under-secretary of the General Secretariat of the Synod, and some parish priests who participated in the meeting.

 

Accreditation and participation procedure Journalists and media operators who wish to participate must no less than 24 hours before the event, via the Holy See Press Office online accreditation system, at https://press.vatican.va/accreditamenti, selecting the event:  Incontro con i giornalisti – “Parroci per il Sinodo”.

Journalists and media operators who are admitted will receive confirmation of participation via the online accreditation system.

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Journalists and media operators accredited for the Press Conference are invited to arrive 30 minutes before the start time.