SUMMARY:
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PROGRAMME OF THE POPE'S APOSTOLIC TRIP TO LEBANON
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WEST-EASTERN DIVAN ORCHESTRA, CONDUCTED BY DANIEL BARENBOIM, TO PLAY
A CONCERT FOR BENEDICT XVI
- OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
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PROGRAMME
OF THE POPE'S APOSTOLIC TRIP TO LEBANON
Vatican
City, 3 July 2012 (VIS) - Benedict XVI is to make an apostolic trip
to Lebanon from 14 to 16 September in order to sign the Post-Synodal
Apostolic Exhortation of the Special Assembly for the Middle East of
the Synod of Bishops, which took place in the Vatican in October
2010.
The Holy
Father will depart from Ciampino airport in Rome at 9.30 a.m. on
Friday 14 September and land at the Rafik Hariri international
airport in Beirut at 1.45 p.m. local time. Following the welcome
ceremony he will travel to Harissa where he will visit the basilica
of St. Paul and sign the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation.
At 10
a.m. on Saturday 15 September the Pope will travel to the
presidential palace at Baabda where he will pay a courtesy visit to
the president of Lebanon, as well as to the prime minister and the
speaker of the parliament. He will then meet with the heads of Muslim
communities before going on to pronounce an address before
representatives from government, State institutions, the diplomatic
corps, religious leaders and the world of culture.
On the
same day the Pope will have lunch at the Armenian Catholic
Patriarchate of Bzommar with patriarchs and bishops of Lebanon,
members of the Special Council for the Middle East of the Synod of
Bishops, and the papal entourage. At 6 p.m. he is scheduled to
deliver an address to young people gathered on the square in front of
the Maronite Patriarchate at Bkerke.
At 10
a.m. on Sunday 16 September the Holy Father will celebrate Mass at
Beirut City Centre Waterfront and consign the Post-Synodal Apostolic
Exhortation. Having prayed the Angelus he will then travel by car to
the apostolic nunciature at Harissa where he will have lunch with
members of his entourage. At 5.15 p.m. he is due to preside at an
ecumenical gathering in the Syro-Catholic Patriarchate of Charfet.
From there he will travel directly to the airport of Beirut whence
his return flight to Rome is due to depart at 7 p.m.
WEST-EASTERN
DIVAN ORCHESTRA, CONDUCTED BY DANIEL BARENBOIM, TO PLAY A CONCERT FOR
BENEDICT XVI
Vatican
City, 3 July 2012 (VIS) - The conductor Daniel Barenboim and the
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra are to play a concert for Benedict XVI.
The event will take place on 11 July, St. Benedict's Day, at the
Apostolic Palace of Castelgandolfo, and the programme will feature
works by Ludwig van Beethoven, whose music will be the focal point of
the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra's summer tour.
After its
opening performance in Munich, Germany, on 10 July the orchestra will
take in Versailles, France; Geneva, Switzerland; the BBC Proms in
London, England, and the Salzburg Festival in Austria, among other
venues. The concert scheduled for Berlin's Waldbuhne on 29 July will
be one of the highlights of the "Beethoven for All" summer
tour and will again be in aid of educational projects organised by
the orchestra in Israel and Palestine.
"Benedict
XVI has long promoted active dialogue between Jews, Christians and
Muslims", says a communique on the event released today. "In
1999 Barenboim and Edward Said founded the West-Eastern Divan
Orchestra, a grouping of musicians from Israel, Palestine, Syria,
Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Iran, Turkey and Spain. Every year they come
together for summer workshops, which take their inspiration from the
spirit of music and a willingness to engage with the views and
experiences of the assembled musicians, each with personal ties to
the troubled situation in the Middle East".
OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican
City, 3 July 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father:
-
Appointed Bishop Prakash Mallavarapu of Vijayawada, India, as
archbishop of Visakhapatnam (area 25,950, population 12,816,000,
Catholics 250,186, priests 154, religious 581), India. He succeeds
Archbishop Mariadas Kagithapu M.S.F.S., whose resignation from the
pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon
having reached the age limit.
-
Appointed Msgr. Jeffrey Marc Monforton of the clergy of the
archdiocese of Detroit, U.S.A., pastor of the parish of St. Andrew in
Rochester, as bishop of Steubenville (area 15,309, population
538,000, Catholics 38,900, priests 118, permanent deacons 6,
religious 100), U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in Detroit in 1963
and ordained a priest in 1994. He has served in pastoral care in
numerous parishes, and has worked as professor and later rector of
the Sacred Heart Seminary.
- Erected
the new diocese of Batticaloa (area 7,269, population 1,199,966,
Catholics 55,225, priests 48, religious 84) Sri Lanka, with territory
taken from the diocese of Trincomalee-Batticaloa, making it a
suffragan of the metropolitan church of Colombo. He appointed Bishop
Joseph Ponniah, auxiliary of Trincomalee-Batticaloa, as first bishop
of the new diocese.
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