SUMMARY:
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FULL AGENDA FOR POPE'S APOSTOLIC TRIP TO TIRANA
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POPE FRANCIS' PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR AUGUST
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PAPAL AND HOLY SEE HIGHLIGHTS FOR MAY – JULY 2014
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AUDIENCES
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
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NOTICE
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FULL
AGENDA FOR POPE'S APOSTOLIC TRIP TO TIRANA
Vatican
City, 31 July 2014 (VIS) – The programme of the Pope's Apostolic
trip to Tirana, Albania, scheduled for 21 September, was published
today.
The
Holy Father will depart at 7.30 a.m. from Rome's Fiumicino airport,
and will arrive at the “Mother Theresa” aerodrome in Tirana at 9
a.m., where he will be greeted by the prime minister, Edi Rama. He
will proceed to the Presidential Palace to make a courtesy visit to
the president of the Republic of Albania, Bujar Nishani, followed by
greetings with the political authorities.
At
11 a.m., Francis will celebrate Mass and pray the Sunday Angelus in
Mother Theresa Square. He will then transfer to the apostolic
nunciature to lunch with the Albanian bishops and members of the
papal entourage. At 4 p.m. he will address the leaders of other
religions and Christian denominations at the Catholic University “Our
Lady of Good Counsel”. At 5 p.m. he will celebrate Vespers with the
priests, religious, seminarians and members of Albanian lay movements
in the Cathedral of Tirana, after which, at 6.30 a.m., he will visit
children at the Betania Centre, along with various people from other
charitable centres in Albania.
At
7.45 the Pope will leave for the airport, departing for Rome at 8
p.m. He is expected to arrive in Rome's Ciampino airport at 9.30 p.m.
POPE
FRANCIS' PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR AUGUST
Vatican
City, 31 July 2014 (VIS) – Pope Francis' universal prayer intention
for August is: “That refugees, forced by violence to abandon their
homes, may find a generous welcome and the protection of their
rights”.
His
intention for evangelisation is: “That Christians in Oceania may
joyfully announce the faith to all the people of that region”.
PAPAL
AND HOLY SEE HIGHLIGHTS FOR MAY – JULY 2014
Vatican
City, 31 July 2014 (VIS) – The following are highlights of the
activities of Pope Francis and the Holy See during the months of May
to July 2014.
MAY
2:
Audience with the president of the Republic of Angola, Jose Eduardo
dos Santos.
2:
Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for
Interreligious Dialogue, is nominated as the Pope's special envoy to
the consecration of the recently restored shrine to St. Augustine
d'Ippona at Annaba, Algeria, to take place on 2 May 2014, the
centenary of its elevation to a Basilica.
2:
First meeting of the Council for the Economy, instituted by the Holy
Father by the Motu proprio “Fidelis dispensator et prudens” on 24
February.
3:
Audience with the bishops of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Sri
Lanka, at the end of their five-yearly “ad limina” visit.
5:
Audience with the bishops of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of
Burundi, at the end of their five-yearly “ad limina” visit.
7-12:
The Holy See is guest of honour at the 27th Turin International Book
Fair.
8:
His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All
Armenians, meets the Holy Father.
9:
Audience with the prelates of the Bishops' Conference of Ethiopia and
Eritrea, at the end of their “ad limina” visit.
10:
During his audience with Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B., prefect of
the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the Holy Father authorised
the dicastery to communicate that the rite of beatification of the
Venerable Servant of God Paul VI will take place in the Vatican on 19
October 2014.
11:
Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, secretary general of the Synod of
Bishops, takes possession of the diaconate of Sant’Anselmo
all’Aventino, Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta, 5.
12:
Death of Cardinal Marco Ce, Patriarch emeritus of Venice, Italy, at
the age of 88.
13:
Pope Francis presides at the 13th Ordinary Council of the Synod of
Bishops.
15:
Pope Francis receives the credential letters of seven new ambassadors
to the Holy See: Pierre Yves Fux, Switzerland; Rudolf P. von
Balimoos, Liberia; Nega Tsegaye Tessema, Ethiopia; Nasreldin Ahmed
Wali Abdeltif, Sudan; Margaret Ann Louise Jobson, Jamaica; Claudinah
Ntini Ramosepele, South Africa; and Mysore Kapanalah Lokesh, India.
15:
The Holy Father receives in audience the Governor General of New
Zealand, Sir Jerry Mateparae.
19:
Audience with the bishops of the Mexican Episcopal Conference, on
their five-yearly “ad limina” visit.
19:
The Holy Father Francis receives in audience His Majesty Hamad bin
Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain.
19:
The Holy Father Francis receives in audience the prime minister of
Poland, Donald Tusk.
19:
The Financial Information Authority (AIF) of the Holy See and the
Vatican City State presents its Annual Report for 2013.
19:
For the first time, Pope Francis opens the 66th General Assembly of
the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI).
21:
Audience with Gjorge Ivanov, president of the Republic of Macedonia,
with his wife and entourage.
24-26:
Pilgrimage in the Holy Land to commemorate the 50th anniversary of
the encounter in Jerusalem between Pope Paul VI and the Patriarch
Athenagoras.
25:
Cardinal Beniamino Stella, prefect of the Congregation for the
Clergy, takes possession of the diaconate of Sts. Cosmas and Damian,
Via dei Fori Imperiali, 1.
31:
Cardinal Kelvin Edward Felix, archbishop emeritus of Castries,
Antilles, takes possession of the title of Santa Maria della Salute a
Primavalle, Via Tommaso De Vio, 5.
JUNE
2:
Audience with the prelates of the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops'
Conference, at the end of their “ad limina” visit.
2:
Death of Cardinal Simon Duraisamy Lourdusamy, prefect emeritus of the
Congregation for the Oriental Churches and archbishop emeritus of
Bangalore, India, at the age of 90.
5:
The Holy Father meets with His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the
Armenian Apostolic Church of Cilicia.
6:
Audience with the prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe.
7:
Cardinal Chibly Langlois, bishop of Les Cayes, Haiti, takes
possession of the title of San Giacomo in Augusta, Via del Corso,
499.
7:
Audience with the president of Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto.
7:
The Financial Information Authority (AIF) of the Holy See and Vatican
City State, formalises its bilateral cooperation with the U.K.,
France, Malta, Romania, Poland and Peru.
7:
Cardinal Ferdinand Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the
Evangelisation of Peoples, is appointed as the Pope's special envoy
to the celebrations for the 500th anniversary of the foundation of
the diocese of Funchal, in Madeira, Portugal, from 13 to 16 June
2014.
8:
Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti takes possession of the title of St.
Cecilia, Piazza di St. Cecilia, 22.
8:
Invocation for Peace in the Vatican Gardens, an initiative Pope
Francis proposed to presidents Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas during
his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, to pray for the gift of peace for
the Israeli and Palestinian peoples.
9:
Death of Cardinal Bernard Agre, archbishop emeritus of Abidjan, Cote
d'Ivoire, at the age of 88.
12:
Ordinary Public Consistory for the canonisation, on 23 November 2014,
of Blesseds Giovanni Antonio Farina, bishop of Vicenza, Italy, and
founder of the Institute of the Sisters of Saint Dorothy, Daughters
of the Sacred Hearts; Kuriakose Elias Chavara of the Holy Family,
Indian priest and founder of the Congregation of the Carmelites of
Mary Immaculate; Ludovico de Casoria, Italian professed priest of the
Order of Friars Minor, founder of the Congregation of the Franciscan
Sisters of Saint Elizabeth (“Bigie”); Nicola da Longobardi,
Italian professed oblate of the Order of Minims; Eufrasia
Eluvathingal of the Sacred Heart, Indian professed religious of the
Congregation of the Mother of Carmel, and Amato Ronconi, Italian
layperson of the Third Order of St. Francis, founder of the founder
of the Hospital-Hospice for Poor Pilgrims of Saludecio, now the Beato
Amato Ronconi Nursing Home.
13:
Pope Francis receives in audience Danilo Medina Sanchez, president of
the Dominican Republic.
14:
Publication of the Holy Father's message for the 88th World Mission
Day, to be held on 19 October 2014.
15:
Visit to the Sant'Egidio Community.
16:
Pope Francis receives in audience the Archbishop of Canterbury, His
Grace Justin Welby.
17:
The 2014 Ratzinger Prize will be awarded to Professor Anne-Marie
Pelletier and Professor Msgr. Waldemar Chrostowski on 22 November.
21:
Pastoral visit to the diocese of Cassano all'Jonio, Calabria.
21:
Pope Francis appoints Cardinal Jozef Tomko, prefect emeritus of the
Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, as his special envoy
to the 25th anniversary of the liberation of the Greek Catholic
eparchy of Mukachevo, to take place in Uzhhorod, Ukraine, on 28 June
2014.
22:
Presentation of the Instrumentum laboris of the 3 rd Extraordinary
General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (5-19 October 2014), on the
theme “The pastoral challenges of the family in the context of
evangelisation”.
28:
The Pope receives in audience the president of the Republic of
Madagascar, Hery Martial Rajaonarimampianina.
30:
The Holy Father receives in audience Their Majesties King Felipe VI
and Queen Letizia of Spain.
JULY
1.4:
Fifth meeting between the Pope and the Council of Cardinals,
instituted by Pope Francis to assist in the governance of the
universal Church and to draw up a plan for the review of the
Apostolic Constitution “Pastor bonus” on the Roman Curia.
5:
Pastoral visit to the dioceses of Campobasso-Boiano and
Isernia-Venafro in the region of Molise, Italy.
5:
Pope Francis proclaims the Celestine Jubilee Year in the Cathedral
Square, Isernia, the birthplace of the hermit Pietro da Morrone, the
future Pope Celestine V (1209-1296) who was elected in the Conclave
of 1292-1294 and after just five months abdicated from the papacy to
resume his life as a hermit.
5:
Message from the Holy Father to the Archbishop of Agrigento,
Francesco Montenegro, on the first anniversary of the papal visit to
the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, where he prayed for African
migrants who have lost their lives in the Mediterranean.
7:
Seven victims of abuse by members of the clergy attend Mass
celebrated by the Holy Father in the Chapel of the Domus Sanctae
Marthae.
8:
Motu proprio of the Holy Father Francis on the transfer of the
Ordinary Section of the Administration of the Patrimony of the
Apostolic See to the Secretariat of the Economy.
8:
The Prefecture for Economic Affairs of the Holy See reports a
positive balance for the 2013 Budgets of the Holy See and the
Governorate of Vatican City State.
26:
Pastoral visit to Caserta.
27:
Death of Cardinal Francesco Marchisano, archpriest emeritus of St.
Peter's Basilica, at the age of 85.
28:
Private visit with the evangelical pastor Giovanni Traettino,
Caserta.
29:
Announcement of the Holy Father's Apostolic trip to Sri Lanka from 12
to 15 January, and the Philippines from 15 to 19 January 2015.
31:
Publication of the programme for Pope Francis' forthcoming Apostolic
trip to Tirana, Albania, on 21 September 2014.
AUDIENCES
Vatican
City, 31 July 2014 (VIS) – Today the Holy Father received in
audience Msgr. Pio Vito Pinto, dean of the Tribunal of the Roman
Rota.
OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican
City, 31 July 2014 (VIS) – The Holy Father has appointed Rev. Fr.
Ephrem Nariculam as bishop of the eparchy of Chanda of the
Syro-Malabars (area 32,233, population 4,357,654, Catholics 13,119,
priests 85, religious 563), India. The bishop-elect was born in
Sanjopuram, India in 1960, and was ordained a priest in 1986. He
holds a doctorate in spiritual theology from the St. Peter's
Pontifical Institute in Bangalore, India, and has served as parish
priest in Ernakulam and Delhi and rector of the minor seminary of the
eparchy of Chanda. He is currently chaplain of the Syro-Malabar
community of Toronto, Canada. He succeeds Bishop Vijay Anand
Nedumpuram, C.M.I., whose resignation from the pastoral governance of
the same eparchy, upon reaching the age limit, was accepted by the
Holy Father.
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