Programme of Pope Francis’ visit to Poland for WYD
(Vatican Radio) The
Vatican on Thursday released the programme for Pope Francis’ 27-31 July visit
to Poland for the 31st World Youth Day celebrations.
The Pope will depart from
Rome's Fiumicino airport at 2 p.m. and will arrive at the John Paul II airport
of Balice-Krakow two hours later. After the welcome ceremony he will transfer
to the Castle of Wawel, where he will address the civil authorities and
diplomatic corps, followed by a courtesy visit to the president of the
Republic. The Pope's first day in Poland will conclude with a meeting with
bishops in Krakow Cathedral.
In the early morning of
Thursday 28 July he will visit the Convent of the Sisters of the Presentation
on the way to the airport, and at 8.30 a.m. he will transfer by helicopter to
Czestochowa where, in the monastery of Jasna Gora, he will pray in the chapel
of the Black Virgin before celebrating Holy Mass in the Shrine of Czestochowa
on the occasion of the 1,050th anniversary of the baptism of Poland. At 12.45
p.m. he will return to Krakow where he will address the young people gathered
in Jordan Park.
On Friday 29 July he will
transfer by helicopter to Oswiecim. At 9.30 he will visit Auschwitz and at
10.30 the camp of Birkenau, returning to Krakow where at 4.30 p.m. he will meet
patients at the university paediatric hospital, and at 6 p.m. he will preside
at the Via Crucis with young people in Jordan Park.
On Saturday he will visit the
Shrine of Divine Mercy in Krakow, where he will pass through the Door of Divine
Mercy and confess several young people. After, at 10.30, he will celebrate Holy
Mass for Polish priests, men and women religious, consecrated persons and
seminarians in the St. John Paul II Shrine of Krakow. The Pope will lunch with
several young people in the archiepiscopal residence and then in the evening
will pass through the Holy Door in the Campus Misericordiae with various young
people. There, at 7.30 p.m., he will give the opening address of the prayer
vigil.
On Sunday 31 July, Francis
will celebrate Mass for World Youth Day in the Campus Misericordiae, after
which, at 5 p.m., he will greet the WYD volunteers, organising committee and
benefactors in the Tauron Arena in Krakow. He will depart by air at 6.30 p.m.,
destined for Rome's Ciampino airport, where he is expected to arrive at 8.25
p.m.
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