Pope’s
schedule until November
The
apostolic visit to Cuba and the United States starting next weekend, the Synod
on the Family and a canonization ceremony next month and the commemoration of
the dead and his first pastoral visit to Africa in Nov. are the highlights of
the schedule of Pope Francis in the coming days and two months. Msgr.
Guido Marini, the Pope’s master of liturgical ceremonies on Saturday released
the schedule of the Holy Father for the rest of September until November.
The
Pope will be on a busy apostolic visit September 19-28 to Cuba and the
US. On Oct. 3, the eve of the 14th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod
of Bishops in the Vatican, the Pope will lead a prayer service in St. Peter’s
Square. The Oct. 4-25 Synod will be on
the "the vocation and the mission of the family in the church and in the contemporary
world." During the synod, the Pope will also celebrate
a canonization Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 18, to
declare two men and two women saints. Among them are Ludovico
Martin and Maria Azelia Guerin, the parents of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, also
known as Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Little Flower of Jesus.
The Pope will conclude the synod with a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Oct.
25.
The
Holy Father will observe the various liturgies to commemorate the dead, Nov.
1-5. And he will conclude the month of November with a pastoral
visit to Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic, Nov. 25-30.
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