Lac-Mégantic, Quebec
11:00 a.m. - Prime Minister Stephen Harper will attend a commemorative mass at Sainte-Agnès Parish in honour of the victims of the tragedy at Lac-Mégantic. He will be joined by Mrs. Laureen Harper, Their Excellencies The Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, and Mrs. Sharon Johnston, and Christian Paradis, Member of Parliament for Mégantic-L'Érable, Minister of International Development and Minister for La Francophonie.
Sainte-Agnès Parish
4872 Rue Laval
Lac-Mégantic, Quebec
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Our prayers and love and thoughts go to Spain and the train victims and injured and their families...
Peace of Christ....it's just so horrific
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PAPA FRANCIS- we love u- Peace of Christ
WYD at Rio - Welcome Ceremony of the Pope
World Youth Day: Pope Francis’ Brazil schedule out
Rio de Janeiro
The official schedule for World Youth day 2013 has been published. Pope Francis will visit Rio’s favelas and the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida
Domenico Agasso Jr.
Rome
With the World Youth day (WYD) seventy seven days away (it will be celebrated in Rio de Janeiro between 23 and 28 July), the Holy See has issued an official statement saying Pope Francis is definitely going to be in Brazil for the upcoming WYD between 22 and 29 July. The Archbishop of Rio and President of the local organising committee, Mgr. Orani Joao Tempesta, also confirmed this. This will be the Pope’s first international trip and he will be leaving Rome’s Ciampino airport for "his" South America on 22 July, at 8:45 local time.
On the afternoon of 22 July, the Pope will receive an official welcome at the Rio de Janeiro/Galeão–Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport; at 17:00 there will be a Papal Welcoming Ceremony at the garden of the Palácio Guanabara, where the Pope will give his first speech. Then the reception protocol will be made by President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff. During his stay in Brazil, Francis will be staying at the Residência do Sumaré (Sumaré Residence).
On Wednesday 24 July, the Pope will leave the Sumaré Residence by helicopter and visit the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida, where he is expected to venerate an image of Mary in the hall of the Twelve Apostles; a Mass will then be celebrated in the Shrine’s basilica, with a homily by Francis; in the late afternoon the Pope will visit the São Francisco da Tijuca Hospital, where he will give a speech.
On Thursday 25 July he will celebrate a private Mass inside his residence, as he does in the Vatican; Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes will hand over the keys of the city to the Holy Father and there will be a short meeting with representatives of the sporting world, with the Blessing of the Olympic flags; at 11:00 he will visit the Varginha slum in Rio de Janeiro’s Northern Zone, 33 years after Blessed John Paul II visited a slum in another area of the city. The Varginha community was recently pacified by the Government of the State of Rio de Janeiro. In the late afternoon the Pope will participate in a Welcoming Ceremony at Copacabana, where he will give another speech.
On Friday 26 July the Holy Father will hear the confessions of four young people in the Quinta da Boa Vista retirement home, after a private Mass; he will then hold a brief meeting with some young inmates at the Archbishop's Palace St. Joachim; noon, the Pope will pray the Angelus from the central balcony of the palace; at 13:00 the will eat the traditional WYD "lunch with young people from all continents" and at 18:00 he will hold the Via Crucis with the youth.
On Saturday 27 July the Pope will celebrate Mass with bishops, priests, religious and seminarians, in the Catedral São Sebastião (St. Sebastian Cathedral); at 11:30 he will give a speech to Brazil’s leaders in the Teatro Municipal (Municipal Theater); in the evening he will attend a prayer vigil with young people in the Campus Fidei in Guaratiba, where the Pope will give a speech.
On Sunday 28 July at 10 :00, the Pope will celebrate Mass at Campus Fidei, where he will recite the Angelus Domini ; in the afternoon he will meet the Latin American Episcopal Conference (CELAM) at the Centro de Estudos do Sumaré in Rio and then with volunteers of the 28th WYD ; finally, at 18 :30, there will be a farewell ceremony at the Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport, where Francis will give his concluding speech ; at 19 :00 the Pope will depart Brazil by plane and is expected to arrive in Rome at 11 :30 on 29 July.
http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/the-vatican/detail/articolo/gmg-24633/
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"The Cross gives us the certainity of the unshakeable love which God has for us"
Via Crucis in Copacabana
Pope Francis, at World Youth Day in Rio, linked the Cross of Christ to violence, corruption, hunger, drugs, persecution, discrimination and the incoherence of Christians and their pastors
Gerard O´Connell
Rio de Janiero
Pope Francis reached the hearts of 1.5 million young people from over 150 countries when, on Rio’s spectacular Copacabana beach, he told them "There is no cross, big or small, in our life which the Lord does not share with us", whether that cross be violence, corruption, hunger, drugs, loss of children, discrimination, persecution, or "the counter-witness" of Christians and the ministers of the Church.
The first Jesuit Pope in history, whose spirituality is deeply linked to the Cross of Christ, spoke after watching with profound emotion an extraordinarily beautiful, colourful, intense and deeply moving, modern re-enactment of the Way of the Cross along the beachfront performed by 280 young Brazilians in which they presented in 14 stations, with song and music, the last hours of Jesus’ life, from his condemnation to death on the Cross.
Speaking from a purpose built stage at one end of the beach, and looking out at the sea of young people from different nationalities, colour, cultures, languages, he told them that it is impossible to be a disciple of Jesus without accepting to carry one’s cross. At the same time, he assured them that the Christian never has to carry it alone, "Jesus, with his Cross, walks with us and takes upon himself our fears, our problems, and our sufferings, even those which are deepest and most painful."
Speaking with passion, and alluding first to various forms of violence in today’s world, such as war, armed conflict, modern forms of slavery, human trafficking, prostitution, abortion and euthanasia, he told them, "With the Cross, Jesus unites himself to the silence of the victims of violence, those who can no longer cry out, especially the innocent and the defenceless."
Aware of the ‘crosses’ many families have to bear, he explained that "With the Cross, he is united to families in trouble, those who mourn the loss of their children, or who suffer when they see them fall victim to false paradises, such as that offered by drugs"
Referring to the scandal of hunger in a world of plenty that is destroying the lives of some 800 million people, he said, "On the Cross, Jesus is united with every person who suffers from hunger in a world which permits itself the luxury of wasting tons of food every day", Highlighting the persecution and discrimination that afflict so many people across the globe, he reminded them that "on the Cross, Jesus is united with those who are persecuted for their religion, for their beliefs or simply for the colour of their skin.
Denouncing the corruption and self-interest that is widespread in political life today, Pope Francis said that "on the Cross, Jesus is united with so many young people who have lost faith in political institutions, because they see in them only selfishness and corruption".
Then turning to the ‘counter witness" in the Church itself – clearly alluding to the sexual abuse of minors by priests, the ‘worldliness’ of clergy reflected in clericalism and relation to money, power and position, the Pope told the young that "on the Cross, Jesus unites himself with those young people who have lost faith in the Church, or even in God because of the counter-witness of Christians and ministers of the Gospel. How much our incoherence has caused Christ to suffer!"
Summing it all up he said, "The Cross of Christ bears the suffering and the sin of mankind, including our own" but " Jesus accepts all this with open arms, bearing on his shoulders our crosses and saying to us: "Have courage! You do not carry your cross alone! I carry it with you. I have overcome death and I have come to give you hope, to give you life" .
The Argentinean pope, who was given a tumultuous, star-like welcome on his arrival, began his address by recalling how John Paul II had first entrusted the Cross to young people at the end of the Holy Year in 1984 telling them "to carry it throughout the world as a symbol of Christ’s love for humanity, and to announce to everyone that only in the death and resurrection of Christ can we find salvation and redemption".
Since then, he said, they have carried that cross through all continents, and over the past two years throughout Brazil, which was first called ‘The Land of the Cross". He recalled how the Cross was planted here five centuries ago, "in the hearts and lives of its people, and elsewhere too". Indeed, he said, "The suffering Christ is keenly felt here, as one of us who shares our journey even to the end. There is no cross, big or small, in our life which the Lord does not share with us."
Pope Francis told the young people that the Cross of Christ "teaches us always to always look upon others with mercy and tenderness, especially those who suffer, who are in need of help, who need a word or a concrete action which requires us to step outside ourselves to meet them and to extend a hand to them."
He concluded by telling them that "The Cross gives us a treasure that no one else can give: the certainty of the unshakable love which God has for us." This is a love "in which we can place all our trust, in which we can believe!"
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Via Crucis - Gmg 26 luglio 2013 Papa Francesco
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