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• 8 April 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope presides Mass in St Peter's Square on Easter Sunday Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At 10.30 am on 8 April Easter Sunday Pope Benedict XVI presided the celebration of Mass in St Peter's Square in the presence of the faithful of Rome and from all over the world, At the end ...
• 7 April 2007
  VATICAN - “This is the joy of the Easter Vigil: we are free. In the resurrection of Jesus, love has been shown to be stronger than death, stronger than evil ”: the Pope presides Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday night Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At 10pm on Holy Saturday 7 April, the Pope presided the solemn Easter Vigil Mass in St Peter's starting in the Hall with the blessing of the Easter fire and the lighting of the Paschal Cand ...
• 6 April 2007
  VATICAN - “ Let us pray to the Lord that he will truly give us a heart of flesh, that he will make us messengers of his love not only with words, but with our entire life”: the Pope speaks to the people gathered at the Colosseum on Good Friday evening. Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the evening of Good Friday Pope Benedict XVI preside the devotion of the Stations of the Cross broadcast live on world television. The meditations this year were written by Mgr Gianfranc ...
• 5 April 2007
  VATICAN - Letter to Cardinal Eduardo Martínez Somalo on the occasion of his resignation from the office of Camerlengo of Holy Roman Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI thanked Cardinal Eduardo Martínez Somalo at the end of his service as Camerlengo of Holy Roman Church, with these words: “On the day dedicated to the So ...
• 5 April 2007
  VATICAN - “ Let us ask the Lord to keep all hostility away from our hearts, to remove from us every feeling of self-sufficiency and truly to clothe ourselves with the vestment of love, so that we may be luminous persons and not belong to darkness. ”: the Pope told his priests during the Chrism Mass in the morning of Holy Thursday Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI presided this morning in St Peter's Basilica the Chrism mass with the clergy of his diocese of Rome Cardinals and Bishops also concelebrated. During the Mass th ...
• 5 April 2007
  VATICAN - “Thus, the Cross was at the centre of the new Passover of Jesus. From it came the new gift brought by him, and so it lives on for ever in the Blessed Eucharist in which, down the ages, we can celebrate the new Passover with the Apostles”: the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI presides Holy Mass of the Lord's Supper . Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the Afternoon of Holy Thursday 5 April, in the Basilica of St John Lateran, the Pope presided the mass of the Lord's Supper during which he washed of the feet of twelve young men members ...
• 4 April 2007
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - To reawaken in our diocesan Church commitment to the evangelising mission entrusted by Jesus”: new diocesan pastoral plan to be consigned during Holy Thursday Mass of the Chrism Mercedes (Agenzia Fides) - During the solemn Mass of the Chrism on Holy Thursday, at Saint Joseph the Worker parish in Mercedes, the Bishop Carlos Collazzi will officially consign the new Diocesan Pastoral Plan to his di ...
• 4 April 2007
  VATICAN - Presentation on 13 April of a new book by Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI "Gesù di Nazaret" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday 13 April at 4pm in the Synod Hall above the Paul VI Audience Hall, there will be the presentation of a new Book written by Pope Benedict XVI with the title Jesus of Nazareth. The ...
• 4 April 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - The Christian Holy Week by Rev. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 2nd April, the second anniversary of the death of John Paul II, the Gospel of Holy Monday took us to Bethany, a place Jesus loved, the home of his friends Lazarus, Martha and Mary who ac ...
• 4 April 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “It is the duty of Catholics all over the world to sustain Christians in the Holy Land with spiritual and material assistance”: Bishop of Jerez Holy Week Pastoral Letter Jerez (Agenzia Fides) - "As Holy Week comes again, our minds and hearts go to the places where the central events of the Christian faith happened”, Bishop Juan del Río of the diocese of Adisona-Jerez, Spain in a pasto ...
• 4 April 2007
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Fire in Catholic Hospital for AIDS patients: heroic Sr Anne Thole dies trying to rescue patients Pretoria (Agenzia Fides) - Sr Anne Thole, aged 35 died trying to save patients from a fire at Duduza Hospice for people with AIDS at the Maria Ratschitz Catholic mission near Wasbank in the north of KwaZulu-Natal, 30 km ...
• 4 April 2007
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI at the General Audience: “ Today's liturgy for Wednesday of Holy Week already introduces us into the dramatic atmosphere of the coming days, steeped in the memory of the Passion and death of Christ ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “ As the Lenten journey which began with Ash Wednesday nears its end, today's liturgy for Wednesday of Holy Week already introduces us into the dramatic atmosphere of the coming days, ste ...
• 3 April 2007
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Pope appoints new Bishop of Surabaya Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 3 April 2007 appointed Rev. Vincentius Sutikno Wisaksono, until now parish priest at Surabaya cathedral, Bishop of Surabaya (Indonesia). Rev. Vincen ...
• 3 April 2007
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The Pope appoints Bishop of Mangochi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 3 April appointed Rev. Fr. Alessandro Pagani, S.M.M., Bishop of Mangochi (Malawi). Until now Rev Pagani was Legion of Mary spiritual assistant and vice ...
• 3 April 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - The Pope accepts resignation of Nashik Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on 31 March 2007 accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Nashik (India), presented by Bishop Thomas Bhalerao, S.I., in con ...